Self-portrait in a convex mirror / John Ashbery ; the poem with original prints by : Richard Avedon, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Jim Dine, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, R. B. Kitaj, Larry Rivers ; together with a foreword by the poet, a recording of his reading of the poem, & on the album an essay by Helen Vendler.

Library's copy numbered 129, of "an edition limited to 150 copies for sale, plus 25 copies hors de commerce."
"The thirteenth book of the Arion Press"--Colophon.
Helen Vendler's essay 'Reading and hearing John Ashbery's self-portrait in a convex mirror' is reproduced on the record jacket as liner notes, illustrated on front with Parmigianino's painting and, on back, with Avedon's portrait of Ashbery.
Avedon's photograph printed by continuous-tone offset lithography at Magnolia Editions, Oakland; Freilicher's lithograph and those of the de Koonings were printed from the stones at Hampton Editions Limited, Sag Harbor; Dine's woodcut printed at the Arion Press; Katz's lithograph was printed from a metal plate at Siena Studio, New York; Kitaj's soft-ground etching by Aldo Crommelynck, Paris; Rivers's etching was produced by photogravure with hand coloring at Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip.
Includes 12-inch analog disc, mono, 33 1/3 rpm, of Ashbery reading his poem in 1975 for Susan Howe's "Poetry" program on WBAI Radio, New York. The recording was later edited at 1750 Arch Studios, Berkeley, and cut and pressed at Wakefield Manufacturing, Phoenix.