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Marjorie Perloff, whose incisive, at times idiosyncratic readings of avant-garde artists like Ezra Pound, John Cage and John Ashbery made her one of the world’s leading scholars of contemporary poetry, died on Sunday at her home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.

And it radiated out, intersecting with other arts and artists who were making New York a leading center of modernism: the choreographer Merce Cunningham, the poet John Ashbery, the painters Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and many others.

Like Warren, he wrote in a wide variety of genres — including 12 novels, 18 books of poetry and two books of criticism — and was widely considered at the top of the game in all of them; among other major recognitions, he won the prestigious Bollingen Prize for poetry in 1985, alongside John Ashbery.

To the poet John Ashbery, it explored “the richness of life and time as they happen to us in tiny explosions.”

She eventually finished college at the New School for Social Research in Greenwich Village, where she took a poetry class with Mr. Berkson, who introduced her to prominent poets like Mr. Ashbery and Frank O’Hara.