Statutes of Liberty: The New York School of Poets

by Geoff Ward

Book Overview

Statutes of Liberty is the first full-length academic study of the New York School of Poets. It contains an introduction to the work of these writers, followed by chapters on the central figures: Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler and John Ashbery. A postscript examines the continuing and changing influence of the New York School. The book is also concerned with deconstruction, a mode of literary analysis with which Ashbery's work in particular has come...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349225002
• ISBN13: 9781349225002
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"