Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror Osip Mandelstam After being removed from a

After being removed from a teaching position at Berkeley in 1950 for refusing to pledge allegiance to the United States

al is het maar met een snelheid waarmee je nagels groeien

een schip loswrikt dat wacht

the book uncovers patterns in the ways that language is active in perpetuating inequality and binding its subjects to the will of those in positions of authority

Henri Chopin

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror Osip Mandelstam After being removed from aJohn Ashbery Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award. The long title poem, a meditation on Parmigianino's famous self portrait, has become Ashbery's best known poem. It is accompanied here by a number of shorter pieces playful, witty, elusive. The collection remains one of the most significant poetic achievements of our time.