Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems Children's Social Activists Biographies Take a ride through 26

Take a ride through 26 fully-illustrated alphabets

The place is Washington

they examine the significance of each work

With the help of parents and caregivers

steely-eyed Joshua York doesn’t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh’s dilapidated fleet

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems Children's Social Activists Biographies Take a ride through 26First 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.