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The article offers criticism on the poem "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" by John Ashberry. The author looks at the symbols and linguistic technique in the poem and the depiction of the poetic person. The article also discusses the attempts for transcending textual limitations and the reconsideration of the possibility of otherness.

The article critiques the poem "A Wave," by John Ashbury, particularly focusing on his use of an enigmatic style which privileges indeterminacy rather than the traditional symbolist style practiced by most modernist and postmodernist poets. It explores the intent of "A Wave," the poet's desire to represent experience as ongoing impression, and Ashbury's writing in the poem as conventionally referential.