Coming After: Essays on Poetry

✍ Scribed by Notley, Alice

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 193
• Series: Poets on Poetry
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Coming Aftergathers critical pieces by acclaimed poet Alice Notley, author ofMysteries of Small HousesandDisobedience.

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 Afterrevives the possibility of the readable book of criticism.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 10
Poets......Page 12
O'Hara in the Nineties......Page 14
Joanne Kyger's Poetry......Page 26
Ron Padgett's Visual Imagination......Page 38
Hollo's Corvus......Page 52
Elmslie's Routine Disruptions......Page 63
Eileen Myles in Performance......Page 68
A Certain Slant of Sunlight......Page 78
Iovis Omnia Plena......Page 94
Lorenzo Thomas: A Private Public Space......Page 106
Douglas Oliver's New York Poem......Page 119
Steve......Page 128
Topics......Page 140
American Poetic Music at the Moment......Page 142
Voice......Page 158
Thinking and Poetry......Page 169
Women and Poetry......Page 178
The "Feminine" Epic......Page 182
Acknowledgements......Page 192

✦ Subjects

Poetry;Writing;Essays;Language;Nonfiction