Ward, Geoff,

Statutes of liberty : the New York school of poets / Geoff Ward. - 2nd ed. - New York : Palgrave, 2001. - ix, 226 p. ;

Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-220) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The New York School of Poets -- 1 James Schuyler and the Rhetoric of Temporality -- Poetry of Deep and Layered Space -- Schuyler's Mortal World -- The Rhetoric of Temporality -- Shadows and Margins -- 2 Frank O'Hara: Accident and Design -- Grace and the Important Utterance -- O'Hara in the American Grain -- 'It is Possible isn't it': O'Hara's Timekeeping -- 3 Ashbery and Influence -- The English Ashbery -- The Old Magical Notions -- Dreaming of America -- Anxieties of Influence -- Heaney Waves the Big Stick -- Collaboration and its Sub-Text -- 'Wet Casements' -- 4 Lyric Poets in the Era of Late Capitalism -- Botanizing on the Asphalt -- Postmodernism and the End of Representation -- The Fate of Perception: 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror' -- The Perception of Fate: 'A Wave' and 'Joe's Jacket' -- Postscript: Going Around Cities -- Postscript: The New York School at the Millennium.

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American poetry--New York (State)--New York
Poets, American--New York (State)--New York.
American poetry
City and town life in literature.

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