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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror Archived June 5, 2019, at the Wayback Machine at the National Book Foundation blog, including an essay on the poem by Evie Shockley and other information "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" – the title poem in full, as first published in the August 1974 issue of Poetry magazine
Self-portrait; Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery: the portrait is the subject of a long poem in a poetry collection by Ashbery, both the poem and the collection of the same name. The book won all three of the major prizes awarded to collections by American poets.
Three Poems (1972) The Vermont Notebook (1975), illustrated prose poems; Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award [31] and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Houseboat Days (1977) As We Know (1979) Shadow Train (1981) A Wave (1984), awarded the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the ...
A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook. A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot 's Four Quartets ) to several hundred poems (as is often seen in collections of haiku ).
The post-modern feeling for language is similar: words may be written, but can't mean. The result in Ashbery's case is some interesting exercises du style. But real poems are being written in England, in Australia, the Caribbean and the US by at least a dozen English-speaking poets who are committed to a language that lives and dies." [1]
The self-portrait supposes in theory the use of a mirror; glass mirrors became available in Europe in the 15th century. The first mirrors used were convex, introducing deformations that the artist sometimes preserved. A painting by Parmigianino in 1524 Self-portrait in a mirror, demonstrates the phenomenon.
The portrait, drenched in the color red, depicts Charles wearing the red military uniform of the Welsh Guards, as he sits with his hand on his sword, amid a vibrant red background. A monarch ...
National Book Award for Poetry: John Ashbery, Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Ashbery: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror; Walt Whitman Award: Laura Gilpin, The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe; Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: J. V. Cunningham