Don't ever get famous : essays on New York writing after the New York School / edited by Daniel Kane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kane, Daniel, 1968-

Kenneth H. and Thelma F. Cisney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Book Committee.

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

American poetry.

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

Poets, American--New York (State)--New York.

Poets, American.

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

New York (N.Y.).

Intellectual life.

New York (N.Y.)--In literature.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

xix, 399 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Champaign : Dalkey Archive Press, 2006.

Summary:

The essays in Don't Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing after the New York School focus attention on the vibrant downtown New York poetry scene of the 1960s and '70s. Contributors examine the cultural, sociological, and historical contexts of a diverse and important group of writers including Bernadette Mayer, Lorenzo Thomas, Hannah Weiner, Clark Coolidge, Anne Waldman, and many others. Close readings of individual poems, discussions about Umbra and the Black Arts Movement, and considerations of the various poetry workshops and small-press publications typical of the period all find a place here. The poetry coming out of the downtown scene proved crucial for American innovative writing as a whole. Given the lack of published scholarship concerned with this poetry culture, Don't Ever Get Famous is a vital and ground-breaking book that finally begins to address a major gap in literary history and criticism.

Contents:

Andrew Epstein "Against the Speech of Friends": Amiri Baraka Sings the "White Friend Blues" 3

/ Jed Rasula Deep Image 29

/ Jon Panish "As Radical As Society Demands the Truth to Be": Umbra's Racial Politics and Poetics 50

/ Harry Thorne "The New York School is a Joke": The Disruptive Poetics of C: A Journal of Poetry 74

/ Daniel Kane Angel Hair Magazine, The Second-Generation New York School, and The Poetics of Sociability 90

/ Linda Russo Poetics of Adjacency: 0-9 and the Conceptual Writing of Bernadette Mayer & Hannah Weiner 122

/ Lytle Shaw Faulting Description: Clark Coolidge, Bernadette Mayer and the Site of Scientific Authority 151

/ Rachel Blau DuPlessis Anne Waldman: Standing Corporeally in One's Time 173

/ Bob Perelman "Fucking / me across the decades like we / poets like": Embodied Poetic Transmission 195

/ Nick Selby "A generous time": Lee Harwood in New York 215

/ Patrick Masterson, Paul Stephens Spring in This World of Mad Angels: The Poetry of Joseph Ceravolo 242

/ Gary Lenhart "Everyone you've ever been with for a moment": The poetry of Lewis Warsh 265

/ Lorenzo Thomas The Pleasures of Elusiveness: What Is In and Around Ron Padgett's Poetry 288

/ Ange Mlinko Charles North's Adventures in Poetry 303

/ Andrea Brady The Other Poet: Wieners, O'Hara, Olson 317.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kenneth H. and Thelma F. Cisney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1564784606

9781564784605

OCLC:

69241516