Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror is a landmark 1975 poetry collection by John Ashbery, renowned for its complex, meditative style and its title poem, which won multiple major literary awards.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
author John Ashbery NERFINISHED
awardReceived National Book Award for Poetry NERFINISHED
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry NERFINISHED
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry NERFINISHED
containsPoem Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (poem) NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReputation landmark work of late-20th-century American poetry
followedBy Houseboat Days NERFINISHED
genre poetry
hasCanonicalStatus canon of American poetry
hasCentralPoem Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (poem) NERFINISHED
hasForm collection of poems
hasInfluenceOn contemporary American poetry
hasNarrativePerspective first-person
hasPoeticMode lyric
meditative lyric
hasTheme art and representation
consciousness
perception
self-reflection
time
hasTitlePoem Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (poem) NERFINISHED
includedIn John Ashbery bibliography
inspirationArtist Parmigianino NERFINISHED
inspiredBy Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (painting) NERFINISHED
isTitleOf Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (poem) NERFINISHED
language English
literaryForm free verse
literaryMovement postmodernism
mediaType print
notableWork Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (poem) NERFINISHED
originalPublicationDecade 1970s
pageCountApproximate 80–100
precededBy The Double Dream of Spring NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1975
publisher The Viking Press
surface form: Viking Press
recognizedAs major work of John Ashbery
style complex
meditative
subjectOf literary criticism
targetAudience adult readers
usesTechnique associative logic
ekphrasis
shifting perspectives

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John Ashbery notableWork Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror