"Biography of the Poet·John Ashbery" Poet and art critic.

Born in Rochester, New York.

He graduated from Harvard University in 1949 and received a master's degree from Columbia University in 1951.

From 1955 to 1957, he was sent to work in France as a French literature expert from the American Fulbright Foundation, and he wrote many articles criticizing the French avant-garde novelist Raymond Roussel.

From 1958 to 1965, he served as the art critic for the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, and wrote articles about European art exhibitions for the American Art News magazine and Zurich's World Art magazine.

In 1965 he returned to New York and served as executive editor of The Art Newspaper.

After 1972, he served as professor of English writing at Brooklyn College and as art editor of New York Magazine.

Ashbery's artistic attainments directly affected his poetry creation.

Along with Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Coker, and James Schuyler, he is known as the "New York School" poets because of their influence on the New York School abstract painters of the 1940s and 1950s.

I hope to transplant the power and skills of these painters into my own poetry creation.

Ashbery's major poetry collections include "A Few Trees" (1956), "Collected Poems" (1960), "Tennis Court Oaths" (1962), "Streams and Mountains" (1965), "Double Dreams of Spring" (

1970) etc.

In 1975, he published a new collection of poems, "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror," which caused a sensation in the literary world and won three of the most important literary awards in the United States: the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Ashbery was deeply influenced by French Surrealism. When creating poetry, he did not describe the appearance of reality, but tried to enter the most remote areas of consciousness.

When talking about his own works, Ashbery once said: "I think each of my works can be seen as a snapshot of my thoughts at a certain moment." His poems are as rich as mercury.

Changes, sharp jumps in attention, often recording some thoughts that suddenly come to mind, and reading is not coherent at all.

Many of his poems are extremely experimental, and some cannot be explained at all; sometimes they have a strong lyrical atmosphere, and at the same time reveal an incomprehensible and profound sense of mystery.