{"product_id":"self-portrait-in-a-convex-mirror-poems-pulitzer-prize-national-book-award-and-national-book-critics-circle-award-winner-paperback","title":"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award Winner) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Ashbery\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Ashbery's most renowned collection of poetry -- Winner of The Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst released in 1975, \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e is today regarded as one of the most important collections of poetry published in the last fifty years. Not only in the title poem, which the critic John Russell called \"one of the finest long poems of our period,\" but throughout the entire volume, Ashbery reaffirms the poetic power that made him an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. These are poems \"of breathtaking freshness and adventure in which dazzling orchestrations of language open up whole areas of consciousness no other American poet as ever begun to explore\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'. Ashberry reaffirms the poetic powers that have made him such an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. This new book continues his astonishing explorations of places where no one has ever been.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Ashbery (1927 - 2017)\u003c\/b\u003e was the author of more than twenty-five collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award; \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1985); and \u003ci\u003eSelected Later Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), which was awarded the 2008 International Griffin Poetry Prize. Ashbery's honors included a MacArthur Fellowship and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Foundation in 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 8.44 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award (1975)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753726247200,"sku":"9780140586688","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ec998e2646fe07394a4ab76f94a09ed0.webp?v=1780026343","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/self-portrait-in-a-convex-mirror-poems-pulitzer-prize-national-book-award-and-national-book-critics-circle-award-winner-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}