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Penguin Poets Ser.: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror : Poems (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award Winner) by John. Ashbery (1990, UK-B Format Paperback, Reprint)

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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 Mirror is 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 ).

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140586687
ISBN-13
9780140586688
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66864

Product Key Features

Book Title
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror : Poems (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award Winner)
Author
John. Ashbery
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
1990
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
96 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
4.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3501.S475
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Grade to
Up
Edition Description
Reprint
Reviews
"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 " Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror is certainly one of the most sustained performances in American writing. . . . John Ashbery, more than any other contemporary, is the poet of the momentary, the transitory. This preoccupation animates everything he writes, and what he writes is some of the best poetry of our day." --The Washington Post "Ashbery is astonishingly original, and though his mannerisms have been widely imitated, he himself has imitated no one." --Edmund White "A style devoid of pretension and a beautiful ease of manner that is rarely less than enchanting . . . There is no one who writes quite like Ashbery, and the poetic territory he inhabits is very much his own." --Paul Auster
Table of Content
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
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
76-018814
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Series
Penguin Poets Ser.
Dewey Edition
19