Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.

ASHBERY, John.

$850.00

Item Number: 110844

New York: The Viking Press, 1975.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Ashbery on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Michael Teague. Jacket design by Jacqueline Schuman. An exceptional example.

In this collection of thirty-six poems, Ashbery reaffirms the extraordinary talents that warranted him the reputation as one of the most influential poets of his time and a central figure in the American Literary landscape. The New York Times described the poems as an "...evocation of a richly populated inner life that reveal a wholly original awareness of all the disguises that reality takes."