Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Did you know that W.H. Auden famously confessed (after handing Ashbery a fancy award from Yale) that he hadn't understood a single word of Some Trees? (Source.)
Ashbery believes his poetry doesn't "please a lot of people." (Source.)
Ashbery likes cartoons too! Check out the poet reading "Daffy Duck in Hollywood." And you thought "Some Trees" was weird… (Source.)