Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems Children's Social Activists Biographies Kirk Douglas not only takes

Kirk Douglas not only takes the reader through his own near-death experience but tells the story of his stubborn struggle to make sense of his own life

The only hope lies in migration through space to Overland—by balloon

they examine the significance of each work

including John James Audubon’s Birds of America and Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species

Take a ride through 26 fully-illustrated alphabets

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems Children's Social Activists Biographies Kirk Douglas not only takesFirst 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.