1. John Glare "Grey Openings Where the Light Looks Through"

2. Olives and Anchovies The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

3. The Bachelor Machines of Raymond Roussel

4. "Why Must You Know?" The Poetry of John Wheelwright

5. "The Unthronged Oracle" Laura Riding

6. David Schubert "This Is the Book That No One Knows"

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Author photo: © Iannis Delatolas, 2000.

John Ashbery has published more than twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and Flow Chart, and is the winner of every major American poetry prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Poetry Society of America’s Robert Frost Medal.