Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School Something Like a Liveable Space / [electronic resource] :
by Mae Losasso.
- 1st ed. 2023.
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
- XXXIII, 247 p. 40 illus. online resource.
- Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 2634-6060 .
1. Introduction -- 2. Before the New York School -- 3. Space: Frank O'Hara and 1960s Organicism -- 4. Structure: The Architecture of John Ashbery's Argument -- 5. Surface: Verbal Cladding on Barbara Guest's Invisible Architecture -- 6. Aperture: Precarious Openings in the Poetry of James Schuyler -- 7. After the New York School -- 8. Epilogue.
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. Mae Losasso is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.
9783031415203
Poetry. America--Literatures. Literature, Modern--20th century. Literature, Modern--21st century. Architecture. Space. Culture. Ethnology--America. Poetry and Poetics. North American Literature. Contemporary Literature. Architecture. Space and Place in Culture. American Culture.