The scene of my selves : new work on New York school poets / edited by Terence Diggory and Stephen Paul Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Diggory, Terence, 1951-

Miller, Stephen Paul, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature and society--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

City and town life in literature.

History.

New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Intellectual life.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Orono, Me. : National Poetry Foundation ; Hanover [N.H.] : Distributed by University Press of New England, 2001.

Summary:

Five poets serve as the focus of this book. Thomas Lisk, Albert Cook, and James McCorkle open up new perspectives on the work of John Ashbery, while Andrew Epstein, Benjamin Friedlander, Susan Rosenbaum, and Stephen Paul Miller place Frank O'Hara's work in such new contexts as racial relations, popular culture, and the Cold War cultural environment. Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Lynn Keller, Linda Kinnahan, and Sam Lundquist establish Barbara Guest as a central figure in postwar American poetry, engaged in a vigorous interrogation of linguistic systems and the structures of human relationships they encode. David Chinitz, Theodore Pelton, and David Spurr show how the wildly inventive comic poet Kenneth Koch opens a range of new poetic possibilities. And Paul Bauschatz and Robert Thompson invite appreciation of James Schuyler's deeply civilized and warmly humane work.

Contents:

John Ashbery

Frank O'Hara

Barbara Guest

James Schuyler

Kenneth Koch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-404) and index.

ISBN:

0943373506

0943373638

OCLC:

44270470