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Self-Portrait In a Convex Mirror: Poems By John Ashbery.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ashbery, John
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 1992.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- As 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
- Märchenbuilder
- City afternoon
- Robin Hood's barn
- All and some
- Oleum misericordiae
- Self portrait in a convex mirror.
- Notes:
- Published [1992]. Preliminaries omitted.
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