Books written by Andrew Epstein
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Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry
Little attention has been given to this poem's relationship to Hart Crane. The imagery of suicide by drowning (after the speaker has leapt from the bridge itself) which dominates the poem's ending should certainly be considered in the ...
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Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry
Crane, Hart. The Poems of Hart Crane. Edited by Marc Simon. New York: Liveright, 1986. Creeley, Robert. The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945–1975. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. Danto, Arthur C. “The Koch ...
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Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture
The very first issue of the important movement-consolidating magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E opened with a piece by Larry Eigner, a poet who influenced and became associated with the Language writers; the very first words emphasize a model of ...
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Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry
Challenging both the reductive critiques of American individualism and the idealized, heavily biographical celebrations of literary camaraderie one finds in much critical discussion, this book provides a new interpretation of the peculiar ...
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Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture
... and collage, including Kenneth Koch's “When the Sun Tries to Go On” and Frank O'Hara's “Second Avenue,” Schuyler ... A Collage,” Schuyler pasted together pieces of text from the New York Times Magazine: I'm not doing anybody any ...
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The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry since 1945
This new hybrid approach stands in contrast to the personal lyric (aka “the MFA poem,” “scenic mode,” or “epiphany ... the course of post-1945 American poetry: American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders (Weinberger, 1993), ...
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Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture
... (Seven American Deaths, 169) In an interview, he described this new direction further: So now I've turned to ... Disasters seemed to break entirely out of the marginalized world of poetry (and the doubly-marginalized world of experimental ...
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The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry Since 1945
... Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Iowa City: U ... To Read and Write.” Boston Globe (12 Dec. 2015). Hejinian, Lyn. “En Face.” Boston Review (10 Mar. 2015). Hejinian ...