Epstein, Andrew, 1969-

Beautiful enemies friendship and postwar American poetry / [electronic resource] : Andrew Epstein. - Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xvi, 359 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-344) and index.

Situating the avant-garde in postwar America: community, individualism, and Cold War culture -- Emerson, pragmatism, and the "new American poetry" -- "my force is in mobility": selfhood and friendship in Frank O'Hara's poetry -- Growing up with our brothers all around: John Ashbery and the interpersonal -- Amiri Baraka and the poetics of turning away -- "Against the speech of friends": Baraka's white friend blues -- "A rainy wool Frankie and Johnny": O'Hara, Ashbery, and the paradoxes of friendship.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.





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American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Friendship in literature.


United States--Intellectual life--20th century.


Electronic books.

PS323.5 / .E67 2006

811/.5409353