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Coming After: Essays on Poetry

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Alice Notley
2010
Published by: University of Michigan Press
Series: Poets on Poetry
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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.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Frontmatter

Preface

pp. v-vii

Contents

pp. ix

Part 1. Poets

1. O'Hara in the Nineties

pp. 3-14

2. Joanne Kyger's Poetry

pp. 15-26

3. Ron Padgett's Visual Imagination

pp. 27-40

4. Hollo's Corvus

pp. 41-51

5. Elmslie's Routine Disruptions

pp. 52-56

6. Eileen Myles in Performance

pp. 57-66

7. A Certain Slant of Sunlight

pp. 67-82

8. Iovis Omnia Plena

pp. 83-94

9. Lorenzo Thomas: A Private Public Space

pp. 95-107

10. Douglas Oliver's New York Poem

pp. 108-116

11. Steve

pp. 117-128

Part 2. Topics

12. American Poetic Music at the Moment

pp. 131-146

13. Voice

pp. 147-157

14. Thinking and Poetry

pp. 158-166

15. Women and Poetry

pp. 167-170

16. The "Feminine" Epic

pp. 171-180

Acknowledgements

pp. 181-182
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