(Above: “In a Cracked Mirror (Self-Portrait) (A) New York” by Irving Penn. 1986, Printed in 1990. From the collection of Art Institute Chicago.)
SELF-PORTRAIT, 1969
by Frank Bidart
He's still young—; thirty, but looks younger—
or does he? . . . In the eyes and cheeks, tonight,
turning in the mirror, he saw his mother,—
puffy; angry; bewildered . . . Many …