The Last Avant-Garde, The Making of the New York School of Poets

The Last Avant-Garde, The Making of the New York School of Poets
David Lehman
LITERATURE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 448 PAGES

A tremendously entertaining, informative, and anecdotal portrait of the four poets of the New York School: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler. A poet himslef, Lehman captures the Bohemian fervor of midcentury New York in this readable, high spirited account of artistic friendship and collaboration in Manhattan.  (NYC75, $16.95)





 
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