John Ashbery’s most renowned collection of poetry -- Winner of The Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
First released in 1975,Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirroris today regarded as one of the most important collections of poetry published in the last fifty years. Not only in the title poem, which the critic John Russell called “one of the finest long poems of our period,” but throughout the entire volume, Ashbery reaffirms the poetic power that made him an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. These are poems “of breathtaking freshness and adventure in which dazzling orchestrations of language open up whole areas of consciousness no other American poet as ever begun to explore” (The New York Times).Self-Portrait in a Convex MirrorAs One Put Drunk into the Packet-Boat Worsening Situation Forties Flick As You Came from the Holy Land A Man of Words Scheherazade Absolute Clearance Grand Galop Poem in Three Parts Voyage in the Blue Farm Farm II Farm III Hop o' My Thumb De Imagine Mundi Foreboding The Tomb of Stuart Merrill Tarpaulin River Mixed Feelings The One Thing That Can Save America Tenth Symphony On Autumn Lake Fear of Death Ode to Bill Lithuanian Dance Band Sand Pail No Way of Knowing Suite Märchenbilder City Afternoon Robin Hood's Barn All and Some Oleum Misericordiae Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror No one now writing poetry in the English language is likelier than Ashbery to survive the severe judgments of time. . . . He is joining that American sequence that includes Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, and Hart Crane. --Harold Bloom
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