Item K/PP106/5/7/19-36 - Articles about John Ashbery, 1966-1985

John Ashbery, studies: John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch: a conversation (Interview Press, Tucson, Arizona, 1966); 'The New York school of poets: the serious at play' by Stephen Koch from The New York Times Book Review 11 Feb 1968 (outsize); 'The craft of John Ashbery', an interview by Louis A. Osti from Confrontation 9 (New York, 1974) 84-96; 'How to be a difficult poet' by Richard Kostelanetz from The New York Times Magazine, 23 May 1976, 18-31, 2 copies; 'A poet of the transitory' by Edmund White Dialogue 11 (Washington, 1978) 126-128; photocopy of interview-article 'John Ashbery in Warsaw', by Piotr Sommer, from Quarro, 17 May 1981, 13-15 (outsize); 'John Ashbery: an interview' by David Remnick Bennington Review (Vermont, Sep. 1980) 14-21; 'The desire to displease' by Peter Porter from Sunday Observer, 31 May 1981; 'The experience of experience: a conversation with John Ashbery' by A. Poulin, Jr., from Michigan Quarterly Review 20 (1981) 242-255; 'An interview with John Ashbery' by John Koethe, from Sub Stance (1983) 178-186; photocopy of interview-article 'John Ashbery: the art of poetry' by Peter Stitt from Paris Review 33 (1983) 30-59 (outsize); 'The diffracting diamond: Ashbery, romanticism and anti-art' by Alan Williamson in Introspection and contemporary poetry (Harvard University Press, 1984), 116-148, 199-200; 'The poetry of John Ashbery' by John Bayley in Selected essays (Cambridge University Press, 1984), 33-44; 'Cocksure muse' by Peter Porter from The Observer 21 Oct 1984, with covering note from Mary Joan Connors; 'The pleasures of poetry' by David Lehman from New York Times Magazine 16 Dec 1984, 62-92; 'John Ashbery: an interview with John Murphy' Poetry Review 75/2 (London, 1985) 20-25; 'The Leonore Marshall Prize' by John Hollander, from The Nation, 19 Oct 1985, 386-388; 'Getting rid of the burden of sense' by James Fenton The New York Times Book Review, 29 Dec 1985, 10 (outsize)