Urban pastoral
Subtitle: natural currents in the New York School
By: Timothy Gray
Series: Contemporary North American poetry series; Contemporary North American poetry series
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781587299094
Subjects: History and criticism; American poetry; Nature in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Semiotic shepherd: Frank O'Hara and the embodiment of urban pastoral community; title: 2. Locus sodus: tracking time and place in John Ashbery's landscapes; title: 3. Fictions dressed like water: Barbara Guest's aqueous imagery; title: 4. New windows on New York: The figurative vision of James Schuyler and Jane Freilicher; title: 5. Fun city: Kenneth Koch among schoolchildren; title: 6. The place where your nature meets mine: Diane di Prima in the West; title: 7. A world without gravity: Jim Carroll and Kathleen Norris in the Warhol Underground.