Karin Roffman (author of the forthcoming Young John Ashbery: A Biography of His Early Life and Art) presents illuminating excerpts from Ashbery's over 1,000 pages of childhood diaries, as well as rare recordings from the Woodberry Poetry Room and the Penn Sound archives.
Date: Recorded at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University, on April 3, 2012.
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