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The last avant-garde : the making of the New York School of Poets / by David Lehman.
LIBRA PS255.N5 L45 1999 copy 2
Available from offsite location
LIBRA PS255.N5 L45 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lehman, David, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Poets, American--Homes and haunts--New York (State)--New York.
- Poets, American.
- Experimental poetry, American--History and criticism.
- Experimental poetry, American.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--New York (State)--New York.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- Poets, American--Homes and haunts.
- New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Intellectual life.
- City and town life in literature.
- City and town life.
- Literature.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Anchor Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Anchor Books, 1999.
- Summary:
- The Last Avant-Garde is a richly detailed portrait of one of the most significant movements in American arts and letters. Covering the years 1948 to 1966, the book focuses on four fast friends - John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler - the poets at the center of the New York School. They were both acolytes and catalysts. Enthralled with the bold experiments of painters like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, each came to New York filled with the ideas that would revolutionize poetry and greatly influence writers, visual artists, musicians, and composers up to the present day. Lehman brings to life the exhilarating creative ferment of the time and place, the relationship of great friendship to great art, and the powerful influence a group of visual artists, especially Jane Freilicher, Larry Rivers, and Fairfield Porter, had on the literary efforts of the New York School.
- Contents:
- The pursuit of happiness
- The band of rivals
- John Ashbery: the picture of little J. A. in a prospect in flowers
- Frank O'Hara: you just go on your nerve
- Kenneth Koch: the pleasures of peace
- James Schuyler: things as they are
- The avant-garde rides to the rescue
- The last avant-garde.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-414) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0385495331
- 9780385495332
- OCLC:
- 43264784
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Book review (H-Net)
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