10 Questions for Poet John Ashbery

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  • @SEIngraham
    @SEIngraham 7 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Oh, dear John Ashbery - modest, a wonder of a man. So polite in this interview. Died yesterday. September 3.2017. Wouldn't have wanted to be anything but what he was ... a poet. America's greatest living poet. Until yesterday. He will be missed.

  • @NAR-wv3sl
    @NAR-wv3sl ปีที่แล้ว +9

    John Ashbery saved this interview from disaster. I miss him terribly, being somewhere I could reach.

  • @shahzebakhter8074
    @shahzebakhter8074 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    that woman had never in her life heard of Ashbery before this day smfh

  • @manyblankpages7677
    @manyblankpages7677 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    "You're not here for me."
    "I'm prepared to be wrong."
    I mean wow! with this interviewer.

    • @JoanRoos
      @JoanRoos 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      so right, she must be nervous

    • @KVLwrites
      @KVLwrites 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Abdu

  • @skittlehappymatt
    @skittlehappymatt 11 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    "Are you America's most important living poet?"
    WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT? Was she actually expecting him to say "Oh yeah I'm the best of the best nowadays!" People who ask those questions must think their interviewee is some sort of a narcissist, self-absorbed bloat, no one in their right mind would answer with yes unless they had some sort of a comeback after the fact, like saying maybe, but then again doesn't every poet think the same at some point?
    What was she thinking?

    • @Harpbymarriage
      @Harpbymarriage 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      what a moron question; agree with ya 100%

  • @sesparks
    @sesparks 12 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    @bbradyb: I completely agree. I've come back to this interview about a dozen times over the last couple of weeks because it bothers me so much. It's painfully obvious that the interviewer is far out of her league and she has no idea who she is talking to. In turn, Mr. Ashbery is far more gracious to her than she deserves. I think what really bothers me is that this sham interview could be someone's introduction to someone as beautiful as John Ashbery.

    • @noimpostura
      @noimpostura ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't think it is a bad interview, yet it has a general reader in mind. The questions could aply to many other poets.

  • @williamstuart9486
    @williamstuart9486 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    holy moly what an interviewer

  • @bbradyb
    @bbradyb 12 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Is this a real interview - or poor John as a victim of a SNL skit? She is such a stereotype of a bad interviewer (disconnected, insensitive, having a list of stupid questions rather than allowing the questions to arise from the conversation, etc, etc) that it had to be either parody or bad taste. I am sorry that such an incredible heart, mind and talent as John Ashbery has to be subjected to such bad art.

    • @birdieh1716
      @birdieh1716 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree that this interviewer really let John Ashbury down. She lacked the depth that Ashbery clearly had and her inane questions remind me so much of the appalling interview made by an equally shallow interviewer of Robert Downey Jr, who in fact ended up walking out of the interview. A real shame all round.

  • @michaelscribe4827
    @michaelscribe4827 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A great and hugely influential American poet, but nobody could ever do what he did, in his own voice.

  • @asteroidmonger
    @asteroidmonger 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Wasted opportunity.

  • @redsol3629
    @redsol3629 ปีที่แล้ว

    A poem is a story, stories will be a part of human life till we go. A poets mission is to tell the story of their time as they live it.

  • @marycigarettes
    @marycigarettes 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    he's lovely...lovely interview

  • @antonyirvine9338
    @antonyirvine9338 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    John Ashbery and Bob Dylan...two of America's greatets living poets

  • @Caramuel
    @Caramuel 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very impressing way of questionning about poetry- who would you like to be if not a poet? Nothing.. So charismatic.. But if you research a little you'd find that all good central european poetry are more inspired by ashbery and o'hara than milosz or zanzotto.

  • @ChristinaGina
    @ChristinaGina 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love him...

  • @WilkineBrutus
    @WilkineBrutus 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    wow...extremely humble.

  • @M.R.4.2.0
    @M.R.4.2.0 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you guys do 10 questions to Bas rutten or vince mcman

  • @allanmojica6455
    @allanmojica6455 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow. This interviewer works for TIME magazine?

  • @shabirmagami146
    @shabirmagami146 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    ❤❤❤

  • @kkallebb
    @kkallebb 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I consider him a comic poet, but boring in large doses.

  • @user-di3st1ei2j
    @user-di3st1ei2j ปีที่แล้ว

    Jesus! The editing!

  • @freuddyful
    @freuddyful 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All in all, chicken tends to be pink at the bone.

    • @tinaprivitera6669
      @tinaprivitera6669 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have to ask, is this an expression? Or a quotation from Ashbery? What does this mean? There’s something about it... it’s got a nice ring to it.

  • @apostoliagkolfinopoulou3776
    @apostoliagkolfinopoulou3776 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    She is better off interviewing a fraud like Damien Hirst who enjoys answering her vain and vapid questions , not John Ashbery . A disservice but I wasn't expecting anything more from Time anyway

  • @molloyxx1
    @molloyxx1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this interview is so offensively stupid it boils my blood.

  • @davideberhardt100
    @davideberhardt100 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    the blind interviews the blind- dave eberhardt baltimore

  • @rclc500
    @rclc500 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    hero

  • @tcmockiii
    @tcmockiii 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    absolutely one of the worst interviews ever

  • @lostuser1094
    @lostuser1094 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    nah but seirously, terrible interview.

  • @JCPJCPJCP
    @JCPJCPJCP 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What kind of interview lasts four minutes?
    This kind. The bad kind. The worthless kind. The waste-everyone's-time kind. The embarrassing kind. The wish-you-hadn't-watched kind.

  • @son08ya
    @son08ya 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is that Tracey Ullman? Must be her clone - the wig, the vague mid Atlantic accent - is she taking the pee I double s?

    • @bleepswitch592
      @bleepswitch592 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      LOL ! That's what I thought !

  • @Jessie98189
    @Jessie98189 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    i can't stand for my voice, either Q_Q

  • @patrickoconnor1279
    @patrickoconnor1279 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    This interviewer is kind of terrible

  • @molloyxx1
    @molloyxx1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good Christ what stupid questions.