John Ashbery's most renowned collection of poetry -- Winner of The
Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics
Circle Award
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" (The New York Times).