Its first stanza claims that (*) "Pope Clement and his court were 'stupefied' by it" after noting "the glass chose to reflect only what he saw."
This poem calls New York "a logarithm of other cities" in its fifth stanza, which describes Rome, Vienna, and New York upon claiming "the shadow of the city injects its own urgency." Its speaker compares a hand to a "dozing whale on the sea bottom in relation to the tiny, self-important ship on the surface." The speaker of this poem notes that "each part of the whole falls off and cannot know it knew, except here and there, in cold pockets of remembrance, whispers out of time." Its first stanza claims that (*) "Pope Clement and his court were 'stupefied' by it" after noting "the glass chose to reflect only what he saw." For 10 points, name this John Ashbery poem which opens "As Parmigianino did it, the right hand bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer."
This poem calls New York "a logarithm of other cities" in its fifth stanza, which describes Rome, Vienna, and New York upon claiming "the shadow of the city injects its own urgency.
"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror