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    1976 Text Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery

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    In five pages this paper discusses the book written by award winning poet John Ashbery. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.

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    role in this discussion. Bibliography lists 4 sources. BBashbry.doc SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR John Ashberry (1976)  Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., November 2000 Introduction John Ashbery is the only American poet to win all three major annual literary prizes -  the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award - for one book Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. This is the book which will  play the primary role in this discussion. The Poet Ashberry is the author of sixteen books of poetry as well as books of art criticism, a collection of plays, and  one novel. His first book which brought him critical acclaim was Some Trees which was selected by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1956.Ashbery is most  known for the seeming inaccessability of much of his work. His poems often contain sudden shifts in subject, strong imagery and use of rhythm. Much of his poetry relates to  art for he was an art critic for ten years. The Work -from Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975) The consonance of  the High Renaissance Is present, though distorted by the mirror. What is novel  is the extreme care in rendering The velleities of the rounded reflecting surface  (It is the first mirror portrait). So that you could he fooled for a moment 

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