Selected Poems

<b>Selections from the first three decades of the poetry of John Ashbery, author of <i>Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror</i>, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award</b><br><br>The late John Ashbery was a poet whose “teasing, delicate, soulful lines made him one of the most influential figures of late-20th and early 21st century American literature.” (<i>The New York Times</i>)  This important volume gathers work from his first ten collections of poetry, from <i>Some Trees</i>, which was chosen by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series (1956), to <i>A Wave</i> (1984). The 138 poems in this volume include short lyrics, haikus, prose poems, and many of Ashbery’s major long poems, including “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” offering a beautiful distillation of the first thirty years of his remarkable, groundbreaking work.