Up is up, but so is down : New York's downtown literary scene, 1974-1992 /

Up is up, but so is down : New York's downtown literary scene, 1974-1992 /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:New York : New York University Press, c2006.
Description:510 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
American literature -- New York (State) -- New York.
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.
American literature -- 20th century.
Arts, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
American literature.
Arts, American.
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts.
Intellectual life.
SoHo (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.
Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.
New York (State) -- New York.
New York (State) -- New York -- Lower East Side.
New York (State) -- New York -- SoHo.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6114671
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Stosuy, Brandon.
ISBN:0814740103 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814740111 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814740101
9780814740118
Notes:On t.p. "but so is down" appears reversed and upside down.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Brandon Stosuy
  • Pt. 1. The 1970s
  • Introduction to the 1970s
  • From "the East Village 1970-71" / Richard Kostelanetz
  • From I dreamt I was a nymphomaniac! : imagining / The Black Tarantula
  • Untitled / Theresa Stern
  • 3170 Broadway / Pedro Pietri
  • The age / Edward Sanders
  • From Modern love / Constance DeJong
  • Piss factory / Patti Smith
  • Blank generation / Richard Hell
  • It's all true / Richard Hell
  • I missed punk / Peter Schjeldahl
  • Words in reverse / Laurie Anderson
  • From Epiphanies / Richard Kostelanetz
  • From New York City in 1979 / Kathy Acker
  • From Bikini girl no. 8 / Lisa B. Falour
  • On the loose / Thurston Moore
  • Pt. 2. The 1980s
  • Introduction to the 1980s
  • A Lower East Side poem / Miguel Pinero
  • Lower East Side mesostics 81-82 / Holly Anderson
  • From Bagatelles / Peter Cherches
  • Newspaper poem / Bob Witz
  • Haiku from Public Illumination Magazine / Basho
  • Zooin' in Alphabet Town / Bob Holman
  • While you were out / Penny Arcade
  • AC-DC / Ursule Molinaro
  • Lunch break / Hal Simwitz
  • Lecture on Third Avenue (after v-effect) / Michael Carter
  • In the dark / Eric Bogosian
  • This is it? / Barbara Ess
  • Cardiac / Max Blagg
  • Practicing without a license / Richard Prince
  • Five stories / Mike Topp
  • 3 stories / Lisa Blaushild
  • The St. Mark's baths / Tom Savage
  • TV / Brad Gooch
  • Baby birds / Karen Finley
  • From "Idioglossia" / Anne Turyn
  • From Swimming to Cambodia / Spalding Gray
  • Go-going - New York & New Jersey - 1978-79 / Cookie Mueller
  • Three stories from The traveling woman / Roberta Allen
  • Poem with a title at the end / Jim Feast
  • Modern saint #271 / Tama Janowitz
  • Modern romances / Judy Lopatin
  • From Girls, visions and everything / Sarah Schulman
  • From "Phil Spector : a performance poem for three groups of voices" / Emily XYZ
  • On bohomelessness : a convoluted guide to the other side / Darius James
  • From Haunted houses / Lynne Tillman
  • George : Wednesday, Thursday, Friday / Dennis Cooper
  • Fear on 11th Street and Avenue A, New York City / Denise Duhamel
  • The angel / Patrick McGrath
  • Neighbor / Thurston Moore
  • "The red high heels" from Love me tender / Catherine Texier
  • "Money" from Kill the poor / Joel Rose
  • Fulcrum of disaster / Susie Timmons
  • From Totem of the depraved / Nick Zedd
  • More or less urgent / Nina Zivancevic
  • Gathering bruises / Max Blagg
  • Beauties who live only for an afternoon / Denise Duhamei
  • On the side of the road / Janice Eidus
  • Bread and water / Eileen Myles
  • From Beer mystic / Bart Plantenga
  • From Horse crazy / Gary Indiana
  • G-9 / Tim Dlugos
  • Pt. 3. The 1990s
  • Introduction to the 1990s
  • From "North of Abyssinia" / Maggie Dubris
  • The new school 1990 / Richard Armijo
  • Folk / John Farris
  • From The colorist / Susan Daitch
  • Love is a many splendored thing in Brooklyn / Sharon Mesmer
  • Into the sunset / Michael Randall
  • From "Lovers slash friends" / Ann Rower
  • Beautiful youth / Thaddeus Rutkowski
  • In the abbey of arcane synthesis : random thoughts posing as analysis in the global pan-assassination crisis / Carl Watson
  • A visit from Mom / Bruce Benderson
  • From Two girls, fat and thin / Mary Gaitskill
  • Divine comedy / Ron Kolm
  • In Brooklyn / Deborah Pintonelli
  • Janine, or how my grandmother died and left me holding the banana / Joe Maynard
  • Eighteen to twenty-one / David Trinidad
  • A short history of everyone in the world / Jose Padua
  • The shower / Tsaurah Litzky
  • From "Between the hammer and the anvil" / Lydia Lunch
  • Three poems from I always vote for sparrow for president / Sparrow
  • A division of water / David Rattray
  • The weirdness of the text / Jill S. Rapaport
  • "Go ahead" and "mistaken identity" / Bruce Weber
  • Self-portrait in twenty-three rounds / David Wojnarowicz
  • "War stars," an excerpt from the fictional memoir "giving up the ghost" / Mike Golden
  • Downtown publication roundup : an addendum
  • Afterword : the scene : a conversation between Dennis Cooper and Eileen Myles.

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