Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery

[Jen]

This confirms that I do not like John Ashbery's poetry. I've never liked his poetry when I've come across it in anthologies and didn't like reading a whole book of it--his Pulitzer winner. I read it over a month ago and my memory has been wiped clean except for a general distaste, so I looked in the table of contents for any I might have liked. Nothing. I'm not going to analyze why I don't like it because that would mean spending more time with it. I'll leave it at general distaste.