Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Signed First Edition)

John Ashbery

ISBN 10: 067063283X / ISBN 13: 9780670632831

Published by Viking, New York, 1975

About this Item

First printing. A fine copy in a fine jacket. Price ($5.95) intact on front flap. A few light pencil notes from McClatchy throughout text and on rear pastedown. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. This book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. SIGNED, inscribed, and dated by Ashbery to McClatchy ("Sandy") on title page. Ashbery won the Pulitzer, National Book Award, and National Critics Circle Award for this title. One of 3,500 copies printed.

Seller Inventory # McClatchy-302

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Viking, New York
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067063283X
• ISBN 13: 9780670632831
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry
  • Signed Poetry

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Review

"No one now writing poetry in the English language is likelier than Ashbery to survive the severe judgments of time. . . . He is joining that American sequence that includes Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, and Hart Crane." --Harold Bloom

"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror is certainly one of the most sustained performances in American writing. . . . John Ashbery, more than any other contemporary, is the poet of the momentary, the transitory. This preoccupation animates everything he writes, and what he writes is some of the best poetry of our day." --The Washington Post

"Ashbery is astonishingly original, and though his mannerisms have been widely imitated, he himself has imitated no one." --Edmund White

"A style devoid of pretension and a beautiful ease of manner that is rarely less than enchanting . . . There is no one who writes quite like Ashbery, and the poetic territory he inhabits is very much his own." --Paul Auster