john ashbery continued

A big image of Parmigianino's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.

Andrew Marvell's seventeenth-century poem "Tom May's Death," which begins "As one put drunk into the Packet-boat."

A selection of prose by John Ashbery now available online.

The Flow Chart Foundation's fascinating, and necessarily incomplete, catalog of other artists' later responses to Ashbery's works.

The French children's song about the famous bridge in Avingnon, and Walt Whitman's poem "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (compare both to "Wet Casements").

What appears to be a licensed online video clip of the Warner Brothers cartoon "Daffy Duck in Hollywood," the basis for Ashbery's poem of the same name.

The Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Modern American Poetry site has, of course, a page of comments on Ashbery.

Meghan O'Rourke of Slate: How to read John Ashbery.

Images from New York painting during the 1950s: Robert Rauschenberg's Untitled (1955). Larry Rivers' The Accident (1957). Grace Hartigan's The Vendor (1956).

Some of the art-- high and otherwise-- inside Ashbery's house. (Scroll down for more art.)

On Locus Solus, the magazine Ashbery edited from Paris in the early 1960s.

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The John Ashbery Research Center, a.k.a. Flow Chart Foundation.

An ample set of writings and photographs about Ashbery's house.

Andrew Marvell's seventeenth-century poem "The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers."

A very non-academic edition of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem "Wishing."

Some poems by John Clare, and some more poems by John Clare, and a short recent review-essay about Clare's work and life.

langston hughes: ask your mama

People named in Hughes's Ask Your Mama (incomplete list):

"Cultural Exchange": Lena Horne, Marian Anderson, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, George Schuyler, Hughes himself, Ralph Ellison, Shalom (or Sholom) Aleichem, James Baldwin, Leontyne Price, Kwame Nkrumah, Fidel Castro, Sekou Touré, Jomo Kenyatta, Martin Luther King, Rufus Clement, Governor Orville Faubus, Senator James O. Eastland

"Ride, Red, Ride": Castro, Adam Clayton Powell

"Shades of Pigment": Eastland, D. F. Malan, Lotte Lenya

"Ode to Dinah": Dinah Washington, Mahalia Jackson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, (allusion to Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo")

"Horn of Plenty": Katherine Dunham, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Eric Dolph, Billy Strayhorn, Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Charles Mingus, Richard Wright, Joe Glasser, Goerge Sokolsky

"Gospel Cha-Cha": Erzulie and other Haitian voodoo gods and goddesses, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Marie Laveau, John Jasper

"Is It True": Alan Lomax

"Ask Your Mama": Patrica Lumumba, Louis Armstrong, Nat "King" Cole, Touré, Emmett Till

"Bird In Orbit": Eartha Kitt, Josephine Baker, Richard Nixon, Charlie Parker, Aimé Cesaire, Leopold Sedar Senghor...

The Naropa Institute's group bloggers set out to annotate the whole of Ask Your Mama.