

the soul is not a soul
Self-Portrait, Regina Mosch (2022) John Ashbery writes in his poem "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror": ...the soul is not a soul, Has no secret, is small, and it fits Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention. It's a long poem, and it reflects on a painting by Parmigianino from 1524, in which the artist offers himself as if looked at through a mirror that bulges outward. A convex surface. Curiously, his canvas was a wooden board of the same shape. So he leaves u
