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

Name: Last Avant-Garde The Making of the New York School of Poets
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ISBN: 9780385495332

ISBN-10: 0385495331

ISBN-13: 9780385495332

Edition: 1999

Authors: David Lehman

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A landmark work of cultural history--now in paperback--by one of our best critics and chroniclers: the story of how four young poets reinvented literature and turned New York into the art capital of the world. Greenwich Village, New York, circa 1951. Every night, at a rundown tavern with a magnificent bar called the Cedar Tavern, an extraordinary group or painters, writers, poets, and hangers-on arrive to drink, argue, tell jokes, fight, start affairs, and bang out a powerful new aesthetic. Their style is playful, irreverent, tradition-shattering, and brilliant. Out of these friendships, and these conversations, will come the works of art and poetry that will define New York City as the…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/9/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.51" wide x 7.99" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction



The poets



The pursuit of happiness



The band of rivals



The picture of little J. A. in a prospect of flowers




You just go on your nerve




The pleasures of peace




Things as they are




The ordeal of the avant-garde



The avant-garde rides to the rescue



The last avant-garde


Epilogue


Notes


Selected bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index