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> <p/>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.