John Ashbery

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Poet John Ashbery discusses his 1975 collection Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror, for which the poet won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Award. Host Walter James Miller speaks with the poet about his work and Ashbery reads several passages from the book's title poem.


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