约翰·阿什伯利的诗歌因晦涩让人望而却步,却迎合了后现代的解构思潮。阿什伯利以解构的方式书写诗歌,使其诗歌文本自身带有解构的特质。他的长诗《凸面镜中的自画像》显示出诗人突出的解构艺术。此诗虽然表面上加入了“图说诗”的传统,仿拟了弗朗西斯科·帕米家尼诺同名画作,但是并没有对原画进行模仿性再现,而是处处进行解构阐释,同时本身也在自我解构,因此,全诗没有指向稳定的存在,也没有表达确指的意义。这种解构书写既反映了诗人自我的缺失感,也回应了时代的碎片化。 John Ashbury’s poetry is obtrusive because of its obscurantism, but it caters to the postmodern deconstruction trend. Ashbury wrote his poems in a deconstructive way, bringing their own poetic texts to deconstruction. His poem “Self-portrait in Convex Mirror” shows the outstanding deconstruction art of the poet. Although this poem has ostensibly joined in the tradition of “figurative verse”, it imitates the same name as Francisco Pamela’s Nino, but does not imitate the original painting, but deconstructs everywhere and at the same time, In self-deconstruction, therefore, the poem does not point to a stable existence, nor did it express definite meanings. This kind of deconstruction not only reflects the poet’s sense of lack of self, but also responds to the fragmentation of the times.