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| ,“Is Anything Central?”: Politics in Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
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There is something historically peculiar about the fact that Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror established Ashbery’s position in American letters as an unofficial national poet of sorts, since the collection seems from its very title to point its readers in the direction of the self and individual experience rather than of the polis. Ashbery seems to stand in contrast to the tradition of American poets, from Walt Whitman to Robert Lowell, who explicitly represent themselves as political poets in the American grain. In the citations of the prizes Ashbery received for SPCM1 as well as the collection’s critical reception at the time, the poet was perceived as an eminent and representative voice of 1970s America. At the tme that the collection came out, it was generally recognized that Ashbery was making the leap from his position in the avant-garde where his reputation went back to his second book The Tennis Court Oath to a writer who was central to contemporary American poetry, becomin...
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