Women, the New York School, and other true abstractions

Title:

Author:

Nelson, Maggie, 1973-

ISBN:

9781587297489

Personal Author:

Nelson, Maggie, 1973-

Publication Information:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2007.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 288 p.) : ill.

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.

Personal Subject:

Mitchell, Joan, 1926-1992.

Guest, Barbara, 1920-2006.

Ashbery, John, 1927-

O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966.

Schuyler, James, 1923-1991.

Mayer, Bernadette, 1945-

Notley, Alice, 1945-

Myles, Eileen, 1949-

Subject Term:

American poetry -- History and criticism -- New York (State) -- New York.

American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.