John Ashbery hat

John Ashbery (1927–2017) was an American poet, art critic, and translator, widely considered the most influential American poet of his time. Langdon Hammer, chair of the English Department at Yale University, wrote in 2008, "No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery" and "No American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound." Stephanie Burt, a poet and Harvard professor of English, has compared Ashbery to T S. Eliot, calling Ashbery "the last figure whom half the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible." 

Ashbery published more than 20 volumes of poetry. Among other awards, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975).

Ashbery's works are characterized by a free-flowing, often disjunctive syntax; extensive linguistic play, often infused with considerable humor; and a prosaic, sometimes disarmingly flat or parodic tone. The play of the human mind is the subject of a great many of his poems.

This hat's design is based on the typeface used for the cover of the 1976 Penguin edition of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.

• 100% organic cotton
• Fabric weight: 8 oz/yd² (271 g/m²)
• 3/1 twill
• Unstructured
• 6 panel
• Matching sewn eyelets
• Self-fabric adjustable closure with a brass slider and hidden tuck-in
• The organic cotton content of this product is certified under OCS (Organic Content Standard)
• Blank product sourced from China

Age restrictions: For adults
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