The Last Avant-Garde
The Making of the New York School of Poets
$37.24
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
15 November 1999
Summary
A landmark work of cultural history that tellsthe story of how four young poets, John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch,reinvented literature and turned New York into the art capital of the world.Greenwich Village, New York, circa 1951. Every night, at a rundown tavern with a magnificent bar called the Cedar Tavern, an extraordinary group or painters, writers, poets, and hangers-on arrive to drink, argue, tell jokes, fight, start affairs, and bang out a powerful new aest…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385495332 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0385495331 |
| Author: | David Lehman |
| Publisher: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 1999 |
| Weight: | 406g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 131mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
”[A] jaunty and readable account of artisitc friendship and collaboration in Manhattan in the 1950s and early ‘60s…Lehman tells this story with spirit.” –The New York Times Book Review“A highly readable and fittingly hybridized book: part cultural history, part speculative essay, part literary criticism, part biography…[Lehman] weaves narrative strands together with pertinent and lucid appreciation of the poetry.” –The New York Observer“Lehman skillfully waeves biographical sketches into his account of the poets’ work and friendships…Makes a vivid, substantial constribution to our picture of New York in the ‘50s.” –San Francisco Chronicle
About The Author
David Lehman
David Lehman is the author of Sign of the Times- Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man, several books of poetry, and is Series Editor of The Best American Poetry. His essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in all the major literary publications, from the Times Literary Supplement, to The New Yorker to The Paris Review. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and fellowships, including a Guggenheim and the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institution of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York City.
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