John Ashbery

Elliott Carter dies at 103; inventive American composer

2012-11-06 00:00:00

Elliott Carter, the great American composer who was born in the horse-and-buggy era but whose music persistently looked ahead by reflecting and unabashedly celebrating the intricacies of modern life, died Monday of natural causes at his home in New York,...

Poet Jack Gilbert has died

2012-11-13 14:29:00

The poet Jack Gilbert, who had been battling dementia for many years, died Tuesday in Berkeley. He was 87. Gilbert -- who was featured in Monday's L.A. Times -- had been in frail condition at a nursing home for several years before he developed...

Al Pacino, Andre Watts among National Medal of Arts winners

2012-02-10 16:32:53

National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medals announced

2012-02-10 16:34:12

An artistic dialogue about Proposition 8 at SFMOMA

2011-11-19 16:33:04

W.S. Merwin is green as U.S. poet laureate

2010-08-29 00:00:00

Reporting from Maui — We've been batting our way through W.S. Merwin's yard for a couple hours, swatting mosquitoes in the streambed under the dark wet canopy of towering, philodendron-draped mangoes and looking at some 700 species of palm trees,...

Discoveries

2011-04-17 00:00:00

Illuminations Arthur Rimbaud, translated from the French by John Ashbery W.W. Norton: 165 pp., $24.95 This may be the most beautiful book in the world — lighted from within and somehow embodying all forms of literature at the same time. The 44...

New Yorker Festival announces lineup

2010-08-26 16:34:34

'Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems' by James Schuyler

2010-03-14 00:00:00

Other Flowers Uncollected Poems James Schuyler, edited by James Metzee and Simon Pettet Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 218 pp., $26 The Velvet Underground, it has been said, did not sell many records, but everyone who bought one went out and started his...

Remembering Jim Carroll

2009-09-16 00:00:00

Jim Carroll, who died Friday of a heart attack at 60 in Manhattan, was a legend by the time he was 13. That's when the poet Ted Berrigan took him to visit Jack Kerouac, who took a look at some of Jim's writing and said, "Jim Carroll writes better prose...

Still alive!

2009-06-14 00:00:00

To call something "notes" means it isn't finished. A preparation for something else, or a work in progress. Or It means I know this is less than perfect. It means the piecemeal composition is acknowledged, should be applauded. "And to my horror (for I...

Manny Farber: A film critic not in awe of Hollywood

2009-10-04 00:00:00

Farber on Film The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber Edited by Robert Polito Library of America: 824 pp., $40 At this year's Academy Awards, the most incongruous moment came during the "In Memoriam" roll call. Among the distinguished deceased...

John Ashbery

1996-02-20 00:00:00