Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry
Subtitle: O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 2, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780521106139
Subjects: Literature & Fiction -- History & Criticism -- Criticism & Theory; Literature & Fiction -- History & Criticism -- Movements & Periods -- Postmodernism; Literature & Fiction -- Poetry -- Single Authors -- United States; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- Classics; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- History & Criticism; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- Poetry; Reference -- Writing
First sentence: "I don't think of fame or posterity (as Keats so grandly and genuinely did), nor do I care about clarifying experiences for anyone or bettering (other than accidentally) anyone's state or social relation, nor am I for any particular technical development in the American language simply because I find it necessary," writes Frank O'Hara (1971: 500) in a statement for the New American Poetry in 1959.