John Ashbery and American poetry /
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| Author / Creator: | Herd, David. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Palgrave, 2000. |
| Description: | viii, 245 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4450407 |
Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: John Ashbery's sense of occasion
- 1. Two scenes: the early poetry and its backgrounds
- 2. The art of life: collaboration and the New York School
- 3. An American in Paris: The Tennis Court Oath and the poetics of exile
- 4. Forms of action: experiment and declaration in Rivers and Mountains and The Double Dream of Spring
- 5. From poetry to prose: the sceptical tradition of Three Poems
- 6. John Ashbery in conversation: the communicative value of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and Houseboat Days
- 7. John Ashbery and friends: the poet and his communities in Shadow Train and A Wave
- 8. 'And later, after the twister': the sense of an ending in recent Ashbery
- Bibliography
- Index