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Category Archives: Barbara Guest
Look What They’ve Done to The San Remo
There is no shortage of opportunities to feel nostalgic for the good old days when rents were cheap, bars were smoky and filled with intellectual chatter, Kafka was the rage, and New York was a haven for rebellious artists. Nor do you … Continue reading →
Harry Mathews (1930-2017) and the New York School of Poets
Very sad news for lovers of the New York School and contemporary literature: the novelist and poet Harry Mathews passed away this week at the age of 86. Mathews is best-known as an experimental fiction writer who was one of … Continue reading →
Drunk on the Poetry of a New Friend: John Wieners and Frank O’Hara
It’s been heartening to see all the recent attention to the poetry of John Wieners, whose moving, strange, and powerful poems deserve to be better known. Wieners, an important but lesser-known figure within the post-World War II avant-garde scene known as “New American Poetry,” is … Continue reading →
“The Gifts of Women Poets”: Reflections On Barbara Guest and Bernadette Mayer
Over at the Poetry Foundation’s blog, Harriet, Amy King has curated a great two-part feature called “Call and Response: The Gifts of Women Poets,” which consists of brief pieces by a long series of writers, each paired with “an older or … Continue reading →
Posted in Barbara Guest, Bernadette Mayer
Jane Freilicher (1924-2014) and the Poets of the New York School
This week brought the very sad news that the artist Jane Freilicher has passed away at the age of 90. Freilicher was, of course, a major, founding figure at the heart of the New York School, who was central to the movement and community … Continue reading →
“The New York School Goes Country” — Daniel Kane on Timothy Gray’s Urban Pastoral
The new issue of Contemporary Literature includes a review by Daniel Kane of Timothy Gray’s 2010 book, Urban Pastoral: Natural Currents in the New York School (university subscription required for access, I believe). As Kane notes in his thoughtful review, Gray’s book … Continue reading →
Peter Riley on New York School poetry (Guest, Ceravolo, Schuyler)
The British poet and critic Peter Riley has just published a very wide-ranging and insightful review essay on the New York School poets in the Forthnightly Review. Riley discusses Barbara Guest’s Collected Poems (2008), the massive new Collected Poems of Joseph … Continue reading →
Posted in Barbara Guest, Book Review, Criticism, James Schuyler, Joe Ceravolo, Uncategorized
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