Beautiful enemies : friendship and postwar American poetry / Andrew Epstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Epstein, Andrew, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American poetry.

Friendship in literature.

United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Abbreviations Introduction 1. Situation the Avant-Garde in Postwar America Community, Individualism, and Cold War Culture 2. Emerson, Pragmatism, and the ""New American Poetry"" 3. ""My Force Is in Mobility"" Selfhood and Friendship in Frank O'Hara's Poetry 4. Growing Up with Our Brothers All Around John Ashbery and the Interpersonal 5. Amiri Baraka and the Poetics of Turning Away 6. ""Against the Speech of Friends"" Baraka's White Friend Blues 7. ""A Rainy Wool Frankie and Johnny"" O'Hara, Ashbery, and the Paradoxes of Friendship Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

Contents:

Situating the avant-garde in postwar America: community, individualism, and Cold War culture

Emerson, pragmatism, and the "new American poetry"

"my force is in mobility": selfhood and friendship in Frank O'Hara's poetry

Growing up with our brothers all around: John Ashbery and the interpersonal

Amiri Baraka and the poetics of turning away

"Against the speech of friends": Baraka's white friend blues

"A rainy wool Frankie and Johnny": O'Hara, Ashbery, and the paradoxes of friendship.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-344) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-029271-7

0-19-538898-4

9786611159009

1-281-15900-X

0-19-534356-5

1-4294-5913-1

OCLC:

560271223