| Description |
Examination of the New York School, with an historical emphasis, beginning with a consideration of the milieu in which John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler began writing, and continuing with a consideration of their works, the place of Barbara Guest in the New York School, a consideration of the works of the Tulsa poets Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett and succeeding generations of New York poets, the intersection with Language poetry and the introduction of theory, comparisons with other poetic schools or groupings, and an examination of individualistic and community-based conceptions of poetry. |