This list includes primary works with with the original publication date. Many have had subsequent editions and most are still in print.
Poetry
Turandot and Other Poems (1953)
Some Trees (1956)
The Tennis Court Oath (1962)
Rivers and Mountains (1966)
The Double Dream of Spring (1970)
Three Poems (1972)
The Vermont Notebook (1975)
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975)
Houseboat Days (1977)
As We Know (1979)
Shadow Train (1981)
A Wave (1984)
Selected Poems (1985)
April Galleons (1987)
Flow Chart (1991)
Hotel Lautréamont (1992)
And the Stars Were Shining (1994)
Can You Hear, Bird (1995)
Wakefulness (1998)
Girls on the Run (1999)
Your Name Here (2000)
As Umbrellas Follow Rain (2001)
Chinese Whispers (2002)
Where Shall I Wander (2005)
A Worldly Country (2007)
Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems (2007)
John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987 (Library of America) (2008)
Planisphere (2009)
Quick Question (2012)
Breezeway (2015)
Commotion of the Birds (2016)
Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works (2021)
In addition, there have been many privately printed, small press and fine art
editions, as well as volumes combining several of the above-listed titles.
Fiction
A Nest of Ninnies (with James Schuyler, 1969)
Plays
Three Plays (1978)
Essays and Criticism
Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles 1957-1987 (edited by David Bergman, 1989)
Other Traditions (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, 2000)
Selected Prose (edited by Eugene Richie, 2004)
Ashbery's work has appeared in numerous publications worldwide and has been widely translated and anthologized.