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Beautiful enemies : friendship and postwar American poetry /

Focusing on the work and interrelations of some of the most important and influential postmodernist American poets, this text offers an interpretation of the peculiar dynamics of American avant-garde poetic communities, as it tells the story of a vibrant intellectual community where friendship and w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Epstein, Andrew, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Situating the avant-garde in postwar America: community, individualism, and Cold War culture
  • Emerson, pragmatism, and the "new American poetry"
  • "my force is in mobility": selfhood and friendship in Frank O'Hara's poetry
  • Growing up with our brothers all around: John Ashbery and the interpersonal
  • Amiri Baraka and the poetics of turning away
  • "Against the speech of friends": Baraka's white friend blues
  • "A rainy wool Frankie and Johnny": O'Hara, Ashbery, and the paradoxes of friendship.