Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror: PoemsJohn 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. |
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... moved up . So it is that by limping carefully From one day to the next , one approaches a worn , round stone tower Crouching low in the hollow of a gully With no door or window but a lot of old license plates Tacked up over a slit too ...
... moved up . So it is that by limping carefully From one day to the next , one approaches a worn , round stone tower Crouching low in the hollow of a gully With no door or window but a lot of old license plates Tacked up over a slit too ...
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Poems John Ashbery. It thinks itself too good for These generalizations and is Moved on by them . The opposite side Is plunged in shade , this one In self - esteem . But the center Keeps collapsing and re - forming . The couple at a ...
Poems John Ashbery. It thinks itself too good for These generalizations and is Moved on by them . The opposite side Is plunged in shade , this one In self - esteem . But the center Keeps collapsing and re - forming . The couple at a ...
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... straight way out , The distance between us . Long ago The strewn evidence meant something , The small accidents and pleasures Of the day as it moved gracelessly on , A housewife doing chores . Impossible now To restore those 71.
... straight way out , The distance between us . Long ago The strewn evidence meant something , The small accidents and pleasures Of the day as it moved gracelessly on , A housewife doing chores . Impossible now To restore those 71.
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