Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror - John Ashbery

"The critic Harold Bloom places John Ashbery in his canon of the American Sublime places along with the likes of Emerson, Whitman, Eliot, Stevens. Ashbery is certainly among America’s greatest living poets. The article contains a brief overview of Ashbery within the American literary canon, followed by a piece on how to read Ashbery’s post-modernist verse and finally is his great poem (one of the great poems of the the last half of the 20th century) that in 1975 won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award) Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror."
Posthuman Destinies ("Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror")
E-rea: The Poetics of Vision and the Redemption of the Subject in John Ashbery’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
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2007 November: John Ashbery