Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics: Something Like a Liveable Space

Losasso, Mae

Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School: Something Like a Liveable Space examines the relationship between poetics and architecture in the work of the first generation New York School poets, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, and James Schuyler. Reappraising the much-debated New York School label, Mae Losasso shows how these writers constructed poetic spaces, structures, surfaces, and apertures, and sought to figure themselves and their readers in relation to these architextual sites. In doing so, Losasso reveals how the built environment shapes the poetic imagination and how, in turn, poetry alters the way we read and inhabit architectural space. Animated by archival research and architectural photographs, Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School marks a decisive interdisciplinary turn in New York School studies, and offers new frameworks for thinking about postmodern American poetry in the twenty-first century.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2023-12-21

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783031415197

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-41520-3

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 247