In the process of poetry
Subtitle: the New York school and the avant-garde
By: William Watkin.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Lewisburg [Pa.]; London; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: American poetry -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism; Poets, American -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York; Experimental poetry, American -- History and criticism; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- New York (State) -- New York; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; New York (N.Y.) -- In literature
Description: "This is the first major theoretical study of the four main figures of the New York School: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. Proposing a reinterpretation of the definition of the avant-garde, William Watkin describes it as a movement typified by its commitment to art in process, over the final art product. In a series of in-depth, and wide-reaching, readings, he then goes on to test this assertion in detailed relation to the poetry of the New York School, while also examining how the poets' own work further develops and analyses the concept of the avant-garde in contemporary culture."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-311) and index.