Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror Sundial

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror SundialJohn Ashbery 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.

In which Bette Davis—given her break by Cukor—watches herself in Waterloo Bridge (the 1940 remake Cukor had been meant to direct)

Neo-romantic and post-pastoral

Smoke trails out over distant salt mines

Herinneringen en gevoelens die Lea langdurig heeft weten te verdringen

fairy tales

political problems

a method to this winter season/Now I've said this love it's all I can remember/Of Midwinter Day the twenty-second of December//Welcome sun

die vervolgens iets zalvends

and photographs of his performances

maar we moeten er wel voor vechten

Bribery is a long poem in which the author confesses to unsolved crimes in New York City

Beyond Proust’s madeleine we head toward a “deli” version of utopia