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Original Essays | April 30, 2013
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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Penguin Poets)by John Ashbery
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Ashberry reaffirms the poetic powers that have made him such an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. This new book continues his astonishing explorations of places where no one has ever been.
Review:"Ashbery's own kind of recklessness takes the form of an austere refusal to honor any of the claims of sentiment, beauty and good conscience that poetry is supposed to make." New York Times
Synopsis:John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Ashberry reaffirms the poetic powers that have made him such an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. This new book continues his astonishing explorations of places where no one has ever been. About the AuthorJohn Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. Since 1990 he has been the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. He lives in New York.
Table of ContentsSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 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 Märchenbilder City Afternoon Robin Hood's Barn All and Some Oleum Misericordiae Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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