Category Archives: Book Review

Roundup of Recent “New York School of Poetry” News and Links (6/8/23)

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Andrew Epstein

Here is one of my semi-regular roundups of recent links and news related to the New York School of poets. (Previous roundups can be found here). Solomon also offers a tantalizing and exciting hint for Brainardiacs: “I had heard on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandra Gold, Alfred Leslie, Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, Book Review, Books, Deborah Solomon, Douglas Crase, Eileen Myles, Film, Frank O'Hara, In Memoriam, James Schuyler, Jess Cotton, Joe Brainard, John Ashbery, Lorine Niedecker, Maggie Nelson, Marianne Moore, Morton Feldman, Music, Ned Rorem, Nick Sturm, Olivier Brossard, Peter Gizzi, Peter Schjeldahl, Poetry Project at St. Marks, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frank, Rona Cran, Rosa Campbell, Roundup, Trevor Winkfield, Visual Art | 5 Comments

Geoffrey O’Brien on Joe Brainard (and John Yau’s new book)

Posted on April 8, 2023 by Andrew Epstein

In the current issue of The New York Review of Books, Geoffrey O’Brien has a great review of a new book by the poet and art critic John Yau, Joe Brainard: The Art of the Personal. According to O’Brien, Yau … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, Books, collaboration, Geoffrey O'Brien, Joe Brainard, John Yau, Visual Art | 2 Comments

Roundup of Recent “New York School of Poetry” News and Links (4/2/18)

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Andrew Epstein

Here’s the latest roundup of recent links, new publications, and news related to the New York School of poets.  (For my most recent roundup, see here). — Jeremy Noel-Tod reviews Karin Roffman’s biography of John Ashbery’s early years and reflects … Continue reading →

Posted in Aime Cesaire, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Book Review, Brian Glavey, Charles North, Criticism, Douglas Crase, Eileen Myles, Elizabeth BIshop, Interview, Jack Spicer, James Schuyler, Joe Brainard, John Ashbery, John Koethe, John Yau, Kenward Elmslie, Kevin Killian, Music, NY School Influence, Patti Smith, Peter Gizzi, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Roundup, Ted Berrigan, Uncategorized, Visual Art, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams | 3 Comments

Roundup of Recent “New York School” News and Links (2/20/18)

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Andrew Epstein

Ever since I started doing this blog (back in 2013), it’s been a challenge for me to just keep up with the steady stream of New York School-related news and happenings. (It doesn’t help that this doesn’t actually count as … Continue reading →

Posted in Alice Notley, Andy Fitch, Ann Beattie, Art Exhibit, Book Review, Charles Bernstein, Criticism, Daniel Kane, Eileen Myles, Frank O'Hara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Harry Mathews, In Memoriam, Jasper Johns, Jeff Dolven, Joe Brainard, John Ashbery, John LaTouche, Lou Reed, Mark Ford, Matthew Bevis, Music, Nick Sturm, Ron Padgett, Roundup, Sandra Simonds, Ted Berrigan, Velvet Underground | 1 Comment

The Picture of Little J.A.: A New Biography of the Young John Ashbery

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Andrew Epstein

Karin Roffman’s new book, The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life — the highly anticipated, first full-fledged biography of Ashbery — was recently published, and my review of the book appeared in the New York Times Book Review several days ago.  As … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, Evan Kindley, Fairfield Porter, Jane Freilicher, John Ashbery, Mark Ford, Matthew Bevis, W. H. Auden | 2 Comments

Peter Gizzi’s “masterful” new book (and its James Schuyler epigraph)

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Andrew Epstein

Over at the New Yorker, Amanda Petrusich reviews the “masterful” new book by Peter Gizzi, Archeophonics, which was recently named a finalist for the National Book Award. Petrusich notes that this is “perhaps Gizzi’s most personal book; it is tender, lyric, … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, James Schuyler, Peter Gizzi, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

On Bernadette Mayer’s “Exhilarating” New Book, “Works and Days”

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Andrew Epstein

As part of its “Definitive List of Must-Read Poetry Books from 2016 (So Far),” Flavorwire has posted a short review of Bernadette Mayer’s new book, Works and Days (which is about to appear from New Directions), by Jonathan Sturgeon. Sturgeon notes that Mayer’s book is obviously … Continue reading →

Posted in Bernadette Mayer, Book Review, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Grace Hartigan, Frank O’Hara, and the New York School

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Andrew Epstein

Burt Glinn, Back Table at the Five Spot (1957), Frank O’Hara, Larry Rivers, Grace Hartigan (l to r) The painter Grace Hartigan (1922-2008) was a central figure in the New York School of poets and artists in the 1950s. Particularly close to Frank O’Hara, … Continue reading →

Posted in Abstract Expressionism, Book Review, Elaine de Kooning, Frank O'Hara, Grace Hartigan, Helen Frankenthaler, James Schuyler, Jane Freilicher, Joan Mitchell, John Ashbery, Larry Rivers, Uncategorized, Visual Art | 4 Comments

Frank Lima’s Inventory Reviewed in the Chicago Tribune

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Andrew Epstein

  At the Chicago Tribune, there is a review by Jake Marmer of the new collection of Frank Lima’s work (which I wrote about here).  Marmer notes that the book, published by City Lights, “spans the lifetime of this enigmatic poet, who fell in … Continue reading →

Posted in Allen Ginsberg, Book Review, David Shapiro, Frank Lima, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch | Leave a comment

Resurrecting Mayakovsky

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Andrew Epstein

In the TLS, Clare Cavanagh has an excellent and informative review of the new biography of the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky by Bengt Jangfeldt (which I also wrote about a few months ago).  Mayakovsky, of course, is one of the towering avant-garde heroes in the New York … Continue reading →

Posted in Allen Ginsberg, Book Review, Boris Pasternak, Frank O'Hara, Influences on the NY School, Kenneth Koch, Vladimir Mayakovsky | Leave a comment