Statutes of Liberty The New York School of

Statutes of Liberty was the first book on The New York School of Poets, and gave an acclaimed account of its key figures: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler. This second edition contains up-to-date material on the group and its growing influence on postmodern poetics. A new postscript focuses on the work of Ashbery, currently the most esteemed American poet since Wallace Stevens, and his prolific output in the 1990s, including his 200-page epic poem Flow Chart .

Geoff Ward is Professor of English, University of Dundee.

Copyright Acknowledgements

vii

List of Abbreviations

viii

Preface to the Second Edition

ix

Introduction: The New York School of Poets

1

(9)

James Schuyler and the Rhetoric of Temporality

10

(26)

Poetry of Deep and Layered Space

10

(4)

Schuyler's Mortal World

14

(10)

The Rhetoric of Temporality

24

(5)

Shadows and Margins

29

(7)

Frank O'Hara: Accident and Design

36

(47)

Grace and the Important Utterance

36

(16)

O'Hara in the American Grain

52

(8)

`It is Possible isn't it': O'Hara's Timekeeping

60

(23)

Ashbery and Influence

83

(52)

The English Ashbery

83

(11)

The Old Magical Notions

94

(11)

Dreaming of America

105

(8)

Anxieties of Influence

113

(7)

Heaney Waves the Big Stick

120

(6)

Collaboration and its Sub-Text

126

(4)

`Wet Casements'

130

(5)

Lyric Poets in the Era of Late Capitalism

135

(42)

Botanizing on the Asphalt

135

(11)

Postmodernism and the End of Representation

146

(10)

The Fate of Perception: `Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'

156

(9)

The Perception of Fate: `A Wave' and `Joe's Jacket'

165

(12)

Postscript: Going Around Cities

177

(13)

Postscript: The New York School at the Millennium

190

(16)

Notes

206

(8)

Bibliography

214

(7)

Index

221

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Statutes of Liberty The New York School of Poets

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