New Releases by John Ashbery

John Ashbery’s most renowned collection of poetry -- Winner of The Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award First released in 1975, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror is today regarded as one of the most important collections of poetry published in the last fifty years. Not only in the title poem, which the critic John Russell called “one of the finest long poems of our period,” but throughout the entire volume, Ashbery reaffirms the poetic power that made him an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. These are poems “of breathtaking freshness and adventure in which dazzling orchestrations of language open up whole areas of consciousness no other American poet as ever begun to explore” (The New York Times).

In the thirty years that John Ashbery has been writing his acclaimed poetry, he has also been one of America''s most important art critics--first for the Paris Herald Tribune, then as executive editor of ARTnews, next as critic for New York, and later for Newsweek. Reported Sightings is a generously illustrated selection of his best writings on art. This rich volume covers the wide range of Ashbery''s interests--including Surrealism, nineteenth-century French art, Abstract Expressionism, architecture, and design.

An anthology of poetry, drawn from all periods of the author''s work.

Two scenes -- Popular songs -- Eclogue -- The Instruction Manual -- The Grapevine -- A Boy -- Glazunoviana -- The Hero -- Poem -- Album Leaf -- The Picture of Little J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers -- Pantoum -- Grand Abacus -- The Mythological Poet -- Sonnet -- Chaos -- The Orioles -- The Young Son -- The Thinnest Shadow -- Canzone -- Errors -- Illustration -- Some Trees -- Hotel Daupin -- The Painter -- And You Know -- He -- Meditations of a Parrot -- A Long Novel -- The Way They Took -- Sonnet --The Pied Piper -- Answering a Question in the Mountains -- A Pastoral -- Le livre est sur la table.