Spatial Poetics

Second Generation New York School Poetry

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Av Yasmine Shamma, Durham University) Shamma, Yasmine (Junior Research Fellow

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What is the relationship between the spaces we inhabit and the spaces we create? Does living in a messy downtown New York City apartment automatically translate to writing a messy New York School poem? This volume addresses the 'environment' of the urban apartment, illuminating the relationship between the structures of New York City apartments and that of New York School poems. It utilizes the lens of urban and spatial theory to widen the possibilities afforded by New Critical and reader-response readings of this postmodern American poetry. In drawing this connection between consciousness and form, it draws on various senses of the environment as informing influence, inviting avant-garde American poetry to be reconsidered as uniquely organic in its responsiveness to its surroundings.Focusing exclusively and comprehensively on Second Generation New York School poetry, this is the first book-length study to attend to the poetry of this postmodern American movement, encouraging American poetry scholars to resituate New York School poetry within larger critical narratives of postmodern innovation.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-10-04
Mått163 x 241 x 19 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford English Monographs
Antal sidor220
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198808725

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Yasmine Shamma enjoys, reads, and teaches a variety of twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry and her research examines the relationship of environments to literary forms. She earned her BA from the American University of Beirut, her MA from Georgetown University, and her DPhil from the University of Oxford. In between these academic pursuits, she worked as a writer, editor, and researcher for an array of institutions throughout the US and Middle East.

This, the first study of second-generation New York School poetics is a model of careful scholarship and critical discrimination. Writing under the sign of Frank O'Hara but with their own spin, poets like Ron Padgett and Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan and Joe Brainard, have produced an exciting body of the work that has not received the attention it deserves. Spatial Poetics is a genuinely valuable and original addition to studies of contemporary American poetry and poetics.