Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press; University of Iowa Press
Published: December 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781587296154
Subjects: Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; Women's studies; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; USA; American - General; Feminist; Literary Criticism & Collections / American
Description: "In this study, Maggie Nelson provides the first extended consideration of the roles played by women in and around the New York School of poets, from the 1950s to the present, and offers unprecedented analyses of the work of Barbara Guest, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, Eileen Myles, and abstract painter Joan Mitchell as well as a reconsideration of the work of many male New York School writers and artists from a feminist perspective."--BOOK JACKET.