Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror: PoemsJohn Ashbery won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Not only in the title poem, which the critic John Russell has called "one of the finest long poems of our period," but throughout the entire volume, John Ashbery reaffirms the poetic powers that have made him such an outstanding figure in contemporary literatyre. "One comes to know him through [his] poems," said The New York Times, "evocations of a richly populated inner life that reveal a wholly original awareness of all the disguises that reality takes."-- |
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