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Something like living occurs, a movement Out of the dream into its codification.

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Born: July 28, 1927
Died: September 3, 2017 (aged 90)
Bio: John Lawrence Ashbery was an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
Known for:
  1. Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975)
  2. Where Shall I Wander (2005)
  3. Flow Chart (1991)
  4. Houseboat Days (1957)
  5. A Worldly Country (2007)
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