Soura Thateiah Fi Mira'Ah Muhadabah | John Ashbery

The book "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" was published in 1975, garnering the most important American poetry awards at the time: the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Prize for Critics' Circle. Emphasis, through the generality of his poems, on the strength of his poeticism, which made him tall and cannot be overlooked in contemporary poetry.

His poems exude their novelty, adventure, and dazzle in language and structures that open awareness to areas that have been little or never discovered in American poetry. A self-portrait in a convex mirror is undoubtedly one of the oldest volumes of American poetry and the most influential on poetic generations after it. - The Washington Post