PagineAshbery wrote dreamlike, shifting poems that capture how the mind moves. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975) won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975).