Beautiful enemies : friendship and postwar American poetry

Beautiful enemies : friendship and postwar American poetry / Andrew Epstein.

Focusing on the work and interrelations of some of the most important and influential postmodernist American poets, this text offers an interpretation of the peculiar dynamics of American avant-garde poetic communities, as it tells the story of a vibrant intellectual community where friendship and w...

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Main Author: Epstein, Andrew, 1969-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Friendship in literature.
POETRY > American > General.
American poetry
Friendship in literature
Intellectual life
Freundschaft > Motiv
Lyrik
Freundschaft
Schriftsteller
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
United States
USA
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Situating the avant-garde in postwar America: community, individualism, and Cold War culture
  • Emerson, pragmatism, and the "new American poetry"
  • "my force is in mobility": selfhood and friendship in Frank O'Hara's poetry
  • Growing up with our brothers all around: John Ashbery and the interpersonal
  • Amiri Baraka and the poetics of turning away
  • "Against the speech of friends": Baraka's white friend blues
  • "A rainy wool Frankie and Johnny": O'Hara, Ashbery, and the paradoxes of friendship.

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