Kermani et al. 2004. Kermani, David; Morrissette, Micaela; Rudegeair, Anni; Hendrix, Jenny; Briscese, Rosangela (2004). "Annotated Catalogue of the ARC Archive". Ashbery Resource Center – a project of The Flow Chart Foundation. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
"Theme Park Days" (from Chinese Whispers, 2002) includes the lines "Dickhead, they called him, for his name was Dong, Tram Van Dong"—another instance of mere "bad taste", per Ross. On the other hand, "Korean Soap Opera" (from Hotel Lautréamont, 1992) "addresses ... the environmental hazards of rapid industrialization through an ironic lens of Western stereotyping of Asia" and offered, in Ross's view, a more complex "parade of vague caricatures of clashing 'oriental' value systems that might, in fact, belong to any country: capitalism vs. communism; agrarianism vs. industrialism; segregation vs. egalitarianism; traditionalism vs. progress." See Ross 2017, p. 174. Ross, Stephen J. (2017). Invisible Terrain: John Ashbery and the Aesthetics of Nature. Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-879838-5 – via Google Books.
Gray 1976. Gray, Paul (April 26, 1976). "American Poetry: School's Out". Time. Vol. 107, no. 17. pp. 95–98. Retrieved July 6, 2019 – via the Time Vault (subscription required).
The list has changed a few times since it first appeared online. It was originally part of the National Poetry Almanac, a project to publish 365 daily essays on Poets.org starting on April 1, 2004. See Academy of American Poets 2004. In March 2005, the project's final month, the site ran essays on 31 books "meant to showcase the masterpieces of American poetry that have influenced—or promise to influence—generations of poets" (see an archived version of the list as it appeared on May 29, 2005). By November 2010, the list was expanded to include eight more entries (compare archived versions of the list as it appeared on August 3, 2010 and November 28, 2010). It currently appears on Poets.org under the title "Classic Books of American Poetry". See Academy of American Poets 2005a and Academy of American Poets 2005b.