Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

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• ISBN13: 9781857549065
• ISBN10: 1857549066
• Format: Trade Paper
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'was the first of John Ashbery's books to be published in Britain by Carcanet, and this is its third printing. Since it originally appeared here in 1977, three further collections have followed: 'As We Know', 'Shadow Train'and 'A Wave'. 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror' was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and the National Book Critics'Circle Award. The long title poem, a meditation on Parmigianino's famous self-portrait, has become Ashbery's best-known poem. It is accompanied here by a number of shorter pieces - playful, witty, elusive. The collection remains one of the most significant poetic achievements of our time.

Author Biography

David Morley founded the writing program in the department of English and comparative literary studies at the University of Warwick and reviews poetry for The Guardian. He is the author of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, No Longer Poetry, and The Scientific Papers.

Table of Contents

As one put drunk, into the packet-boat	p. 1
Worsening situation	p. 3
Forties flick	p. 5
As you came from the holy land	p. 6
A man of words	p. 8
Scheherazade	p. 9
Absolute clearance	p. 12
Grand galop	p. 14
Poem in three parts	p. 22
Voyage in the blue	p. 25
Farm	p. 28
Farm II	p. 29
Farm III	p. 31
Hop o' my thumb	p. 32
De Imagine Mundi	p. 34
Foreboding	p. 36
The tomb of Stuart Merrill	p. 37
Tarpaulin	p. 40
River	p. 41
Mixed feelings	p. 42
The one thing that can save America	p. 44
Tenth symphony	p. 46
On Autumn Lake	p. 48
Fear of death	p. 49
Ode to Bill	p. 50
Lithuanian dance band	p. 52
Sand pail	p. 54
No way of knowing	p. 55
Suite	p. 58
Marchenbilder	p. 59
City afternoon	p. 61
Robin Hood's barn	p. 62
All and some	p. 64
Oleum misericordiae	p. 66
Self-portrait in a convex mirror	p. 68
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