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John Ashbery, an Uncommon card
John Lawrence Ashbery was an American poet and art critic.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 62
- Power
- 135
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 51,000
Power 135 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
John Ashbery quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the John Ashbery card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Ashbery published more than 20 volumes of ______.
Answer
poetry. Ashbery published more than 20 volumes of poetry. From the John Ashbery article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 86,000 · Kōbō Abe 64,000 · John Ashbery 51,000 · David Woodard 40,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time.
- Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in poetry, the standard tones of the age." 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…
- Ashbery published more than 20 volumes of poetry.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John Ashbery article was read about 51,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 62: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get John Ashbery
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, John Ashbery (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The photo portrait is credited to Michael Teague. (For jurisdictions that define copyright, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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