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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror is a 1975 poetry collection by the American writer John Ashbery. The title, shared with its final poem, comes from the painting of the same name by the Late Renaissance artist Parmigianino .
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 ...
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.
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 title poem is an extraordinary and quite inevitable extension of the New York tradition of major visionary poems, which goes from Poe’s ‘City in the Sea’ and Whitman's ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’ to Hart Crane's The Bridge and Ashbery's ‘Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror.’ Corn achieves an authority and resonance wholly worthy of ...
The first known self-portrait was made in 1839 ... Selfies may have taken over social media over the past few years, but that doesn't mean they're a new thing. Technically speaking, one of the ...
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (c. 1524) – Oil on wood, diameter 24.4 cm; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Portrait of a Collector (c. 1524) – Oil on panel, 86 x 94 cm, National Gallery, London; Portrait of Galeazzo Sanvitale (1524) – Oil on panel, 109 x 81 cm, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples