August 1984 Issue [Poetry] The freedom of the house Download PDF Adjust Share by John Ashbery, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF More from John Ashbery Climate Correction John Ashbery’s last poem, handwritten at his home in Hudson, New York, on August 25, 2017. Ashbery died on September 3. Four in Verse Many of John Ashbery’s recent poems are full of sayings and parables and clichés — but from what culture, what country? The world of these poems resembles ours: there are… Absent agenda Adjust Share