Category Archives: Robert Duncan

Cecil Taylor (1929-2018), Frank O’Hara, Amiri Baraka

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Andrew Epstein

When the groundbreaking avant-garde jazz pianist and composer Cecil Taylor died last month, there was an outpouring of obituaries and tributes to his genius and influence.  But there was less attention paid to Taylor’s connections to the literary world, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Beats, Billie Holiday, Bob Kaufman, Cecil Taylor, Charles Olson, Frank O'Hara, Franz Kline, Gilbert Sorrentino, In Memoriam, Influences on the NY School, Jack Kerouac, Jazz, Kenneth Koch, Larry Rivers, Michael McClure, Morton Feldman, Music, Norman Mailer, NY School Influence, Ornette Coleman, Paul Blackburn, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Thelonious Monk | 1 Comment

“To the Memory of Joe Brainard”: Kent Johnson’s I Once Met

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Andrew Epstein

“To the memory of Joe Brainard” reads the dedication to Kent Johnson‘s new book, I Once Met: A Partial Memoir of the Poetry Field.  A revised and expanded version of a limited-edition chapbook of the same title that Johnson published in 2007, the book … Continue reading →

Posted in Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Ben Lerner, Books, C. D. Wright, David Antin, David Shapiro, Diane Wakoski, Eliot Weinberger, Forrest Gander, Gary Snyder, Joan Retallack, Joe Brainard, John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, Kent Johnson, NY School Influence, On Kawara, Philip Whalen, Robert Duncan, Robert Hass, Ron Padgett, Samuel Beckett | Leave a comment

The New York School, and more, in Louisville

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Andrew Epstein

  I’ve just gotten back from the very fun and stimulating Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 (directed by the esteemed poetry scholar Alan Golding) which, this year at least, amply demonstrated that scholarly work devoted to the poets of the New York School … Continue reading →

Posted in Alice Notley, Andy Warhol, Brian Glavey, Conferences and Talks, Daisy Aldan, Gerard Malanga, Joe Ceravolo, John Ashbery, Lou Reed, Michael Benedikt, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Velvet Underground, Visual Art | Leave a comment

Jed Perl’s Art in America: Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, and More

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Andrew Epstein

  The esteemed Library of America has just published a massive new anthology called Art in America 1945–1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism, edited by Jed Perl, the art critic for the New Republic. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Abstract Expressionism, Andy Warhol, Book Review, Books, Fairfield Porter, Frank O'Hara, Grace Hartigan, Jack Kerouac, James Schuyler, Jane Freilicher, John Ashbery, Larry Rivers, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Robert Motherwell, Visual Art | Leave a comment

Jess, Robert Duncan, and their Circle — Painters and Poets in San Francisco (and New York)

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Andrew Epstein

In New York, two recent shows have been devoted to the artist Jess — the partner of poet Robert Duncan — and their coterie.  The first, at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, “The Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their … Continue reading →

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