Beautiful enemies : friendship and postwar American poetry

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Beautiful enemies : friendship and postwar American poetry

Andrew Epstein

Oxford University Press, 2006

  • : pbk

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

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ISBN 9780195181005

内容説明

Despite the deep-seated notion that the archetypal American poet sings a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with friendship and its pleasures, contradictions, and discontents. Beautiful Enemies examines this obsession with the problems and paradoxes of friendship, tracing its eruption in the New American Poetry that emerges after the Second World War as a potent avant-garde movement. The book argues that a clash between friendship and nonconformity is central to postwar American poetry and its development. By focusing on of some of the most important and influential postmodernist American poets-the New York School poets John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and their close contemporary Amiri Baraka-the book offers a new interpretation of the peculiar dynamics of American avant-garde poetic communities and the role of the individual within them. At the same time, this study challenges both the reductive critiques of American individualism and the idealized, heavily biographical celebrations of literary camaraderie one finds in much critical discussion. Beautiful Enemies foregrounds a fundamental paradox: that at the heart of experimental American poetry pulses a commitment to individualism and dynamic movement that runs directly counter to an equally profound devotion to avant-garde collaboration and community. Delving into unmined archival evidence (including unpublished correspondence, poems, and drafts), the book demonstrates that this tense dialectic-between an aversion to conformity and a poetics of friendship-actually energizes postwar American poetry, drives the creation, meaning, and form of important poems, frames the interrelationships between certain key poets, and leaves contemporary writers with a complicated legacy to negotiate. Combining extensive readings of the poets with analysis of cultural, philosophical, and biographical contexts, Beautiful Enemies uncovers the collision between radical self-reliance and the siren call of the interpersonal at the core of twentieth-century American poetry

目次

Abbreviations Introduction 1: Situation the Avant-Garde in Postwar America Community, Individualism, and Cold War Culture 2: Emerson, Pragmatism, and the "New American Poetry" 3: "My Force Is in Mobility" Selfhood and Friendship in Frank O'Hara's Poetry 4: Growing Up with Our Brothers All Around John Ashbery and the Interpersonal 5: Amiri Baraka and the Poetics of Turning Away 6: "Against the Speech of Friends" Baraka's White Friend Blues 7: "A Rainy Wool Frankie and Johnny" O'Hara, Ashbery, and the Paradoxes of Friendship Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780195388985

内容説明

Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with the drama of friendship. In this lucid and absorbing study, Andrew Epstein argues that an obsession with both the pleasures and problems of friendship erupts in the "New American Poetry" that emerges after the Second World War. By focusing on some of the most significant postmodernist American poets-the "New York School" poets John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and their close contemporary Amiri Baraka-Beautiful Enemies reveals a fundamental paradox at the heart of postwar American poetry and culture: the avant-garde's commitment to individualism and nonconformity runs directly counter to its own valorization of community and collaboration. By situating his extensive and revealing readings of these highly influential poets against the backdrop of Cold War cultural politics and within the context of American pragmatist thought, Epstein uncovers the collision between radical self-reliance and the siren call of the interpersonal at the core of postwar American poetry.

目次

  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • COMMUNITY, INDIVIDUALISM, AND COLD WAR CULTURE
  • SELFHOOD AND FRIENDSHIP IN FRANK O'HARA'S POETRY
  • JOHN ASHBERY AND THE INTERPERSONAL
  • BARAKA'S WHITE FRIEND BLUES
  • O'HARA, ASHBERY, AND THE PARADOXES OF FRIENDSHIP
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX

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