John Ashbery / Richard Howard -- The charity of the hard moments / Harold Bloom -- A magma of interiors / Alfred Corn -- Self-portrait in a convex mirror / David Kalstone -- The breaking of form / Harold Bloom -- The prophetic Ashbery / Douglas Crase -- Vision in the form of a task : The double dream of spring / Charles Berger -- Understanding Ashbery / Helen Vendler -- The poetry of John Ashbery / John Bayley -- "Soonest mended" / John Hollander -- Measuring the canon : "Wet casements" and "Tapestry" / Harold Bloom -- "A commission that never materialized" : narcissism and lucidity in Ashbery's "Self-portrait in a convex mirror" / Anita Sokolsky.
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