Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (First Paperback Edition with Signed Bookplate)

Ashbery, John

ISBN 10: 0140422013 / ISBN 13: 9780140422016

Published by Penguin Books, 1976

About this Item

Softcover 1st Paperback Printing with SIGNED bookplate laid in, no text markings, no spine creases, minor shelf wear, small notation to endpaper about a 'typo' to page 74, else clean tight nice copy of this 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner, long-considered Ashbery's finest work; small 8vo; 83pp.

Seller Inventory # 26816

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (First Paperback Edition with Signed Bookplate)
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140422013
• ISBN 13: 9780140422016
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

'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.

Reviews

Self-Portrait won a Pulizer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award, but Ashbery remains famously abstruse. "Something important is going on here," says LJ reviewer Graham Christian, "and on the chance that we figure it out, Selected Poems is worth having."
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