Research Catalog

Title

Women, the New York School, and other true abstractions / by Maggie Nelson.

Author

Nelson, Maggie, 1973-

Publication

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2007

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Details

Description

xxvii, 288 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In this study, Maggie Nelson provides the first extended consideration of the roles played by women in and around the New York School of poets, from the 1950s to the present, and offers unprecedented analyses of the work of Barbara Guest, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, Eileen Myles, and abstract painter Joan Mitchell as well as a reconsideration of the work of many male New York School writers and artists from a feminist perspective."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Mitchell, Joan, 1925-1992
• Guest, Barbara
• Ashbery, John, 1927-2017
• O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966
• Schuyler, James
• Mayer, Bernadette
• Notley, Alice, 1945-
• Myles, Eileen
• Women poets, American > 20th century
• American poetry > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism
• American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• New York school of art
• American poetry > Women authors > History and criticism
• Feminism and literature > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
• Art and literature > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. Abstract practices: the art of Joan Mitchell, Barbara Guest, and their others -- Getting particular: gender at play in the work of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler -- pt. 2. What life isn't daily? The gratuitous art of Bernadette Mayer -- Dear dark continent: Alice Notley's disobediences -- When we're alone in public: the metabolic work of Eileen Myles.

ISBN

• 1587296152
• 9781587296154

LCCN

^^2007924052

OCLC

• 153578935
• SCSB-9900369

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library