The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets - Hardcover

Lehman, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 038547542X ISBN 13: 9780385475426

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1998

Synopsis

The editor of the Best American Poetry series follows the emergence of four poets--John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and Frank O'Hara--who recrafted American poetry and helped make New York the global center of the arts.

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Review:

"[A] jaunty and readable account of artisitc friendship and collaboration in Manhattan in the 1950s and early '60s...Lehman tells this story with spirit." --The New York Times Book Review

"A highly readable and fittingly hybridized book: part cultural history, part speculative essay, part literary criticism, part biography...[Lehman] weaves narrative strands together with pertinent and lucid appreciation of the poetry." --The New York Observer

"Lehman skillfully waeves biographical sketches into his account of the poets' work and friendships...Makes a vivid, substantial constribution to our picture of New York in the '50s." --San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author:

David Lehman is the author of Sign of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man, several books of poetry, and is Series Editor of The Best American Poetry. His essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in all the major literary publications, from the Times Literary Supplement, to The New Yorker to The Paris Review. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and fellowships, including a Guggenheim and the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institution of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 038547542X
• ISBN 13: 9780385475426
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 433