Coming After: Essays on Poetry

by Alice Notley

Overview

Coming After gathers critical pieces by acclaimed poet Alice Notley, author of Mysteries of Small Houses and Disobedience.

Notley explores the work of second-generation New York School poets and their allies: Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Ron Padgett, Lorenzo Thomas, and others. These essays and reviews are among the first to deal with a generation of poets notorious for their refusal to criticize and theorize, assuming the stance that "only the poems matter." The essays are characterized by Notley's strong, compelling voice, which transfixes the reader even in the midst of professional detail. Coming After revives the possibility of the readable book of criticism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780472026241
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Publication date:	03/10/2010
Series:	Poets On Poetry
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Alice Notley has been an important presence in the second generation New York School. She is the author of over 20 books and for the past decade has lived in Paris.

Table of Contents

\rrhp\ \1h\ Contents \xt\ \comp: add page numbers on page proofs\ Poets O'Hara in the Nineties Joanne Kyger's Poetry Ron Padgett's Visual Imagination Hollo's Corvus Elmslie's Routine Disruptions Eileen Myles in Performance A Certain Slant of Sunlight Iovis Omnia Plena Lorenzo Thomas: A Private Public Space Douglas Oliver's New York Poem Steve Topics American Poetic Music at the Moment Voice Thinking and Poetry Women and Poetry The "Feminine" Epic \eof\