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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.