{"product_id":"selfportrait-in-a-convex-mirror-isbn-9780140586688","title":"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror","description":"\u003cb\u003eJohn Ashbery’s most renowned collection of poetry -- Winner of The Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst released in 1975, \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e 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” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).Self-Portrait in a Convex MirrorAs One Put Drunk into the Packet-Boat\u003cbr\u003eWorsening Situation\u003cbr\u003eForties Flick\u003cbr\u003eAs You Came from the Holy Land\u003cbr\u003eA Man of Words\u003cbr\u003eScheherazade\u003cbr\u003eAbsolute Clearance\u003cbr\u003eGrand Galop\u003cbr\u003ePoem in Three Parts\u003cbr\u003eVoyage in the Blue\u003cbr\u003eFarm\u003cbr\u003eFarm II\u003cbr\u003eFarm III\u003cbr\u003eHop o' My Thumb\u003cbr\u003eDe Imagine Mundi\u003cbr\u003eForeboding\u003cbr\u003eThe Tomb of Stuart Merrill\u003cbr\u003eTarpaulin\u003cbr\u003eRiver\u003cbr\u003eMixed Feelings\u003cbr\u003eThe One Thing That Can Save America\u003cbr\u003eTenth Symphony\u003cbr\u003eOn Autumn Lake\u003cbr\u003eFear of Death\u003cbr\u003eOde to Bill\u003cbr\u003eLithuanian Dance Band\u003cbr\u003eSand Pail\u003cbr\u003eNo Way of Knowing\u003cbr\u003eSuite\u003cbr\u003eMärchenbilder\u003cbr\u003eCity Afternoon\u003cbr\u003eRobin Hood's Barn\u003cbr\u003eAll and Some\u003cbr\u003eOleum Misericordiae\u003cbr\u003eSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror\"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.\" \u003cb\u003e--Harold Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Ashbery is astonishingly original, and though his mannerisms have been widely imitated, he himself has imitated no one.\" \u003cb\u003e--Edmund White\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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.\" \u003cb\u003e--Paul Auster\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Ashbery (1927 – 2017)\u003c\/b\u003e was the author of more than twenty-five collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award;  \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1985); and \u003ci\u003eSelected Later Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), which was awarded the 2008 International Griffin Poetry Prize. Ashbery’s honors included a MacArthur Fellowship and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Foundation in 2011.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300468412645,"sku":"NP9780140586688","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140586688.jpg?v=1767736332","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/selfportrait-in-a-convex-mirror-isbn-9780140586688","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}