Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American PoetryOxford University Press, 2006年9月21日 - 376 頁 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. In fact, Epstein demonstrates that the clash between friendship and nonconformity complicates the legendary alliances forged by postwar poets, becomes a predominant theme in the poetry they created, and leaves contemporary writers with a complicated legacy to negotiate. Rather than simply celebrating friendship and poetic community as nurturing and inspiring, these poets represent friendship as a kind of exhilarating, maddening contradiction, a site of attraction and repulsion, affinity and rivalry. Challenging both the reductive critiques of American individualism and the idealized, heavily biographical celebrations of literary camaraderie one finds in much critical discussion, this book provides a new interpretation of the peculiar dynamics of American avant-garde poetic communities and the role of the individual within them. 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. |
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... seems that friendship for these poets is always at best a double-edged phenomenon: it serves, for example, as a prod to further creativity and experimentation and as a threat or burdensome limitation simul- taneously. Thus, one finds ...
... seems that friendship for these poets is always at best a double-edged phenomenon: it serves, for example, as a prod to further creativity and experimentation and as a threat or burdensome limitation simul- taneously. Thus, one finds ...
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... seems to claim that, in Jonathan Levin's phrase, “we live most authentically in loosing the grip of our personal attachments” (36). As Emerson explains in “Self-Reliance,” “I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius ...
... seems to claim that, in Jonathan Levin's phrase, “we live most authentically in loosing the grip of our personal attachments” (36). As Emerson explains in “Self-Reliance,” “I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius ...
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Community Individualism and Cold War Culture | 26 |
2 Emerson Pragmatism and the New American Poetry | 53 |
Selfhood and Friendship in Frank OHaras Poetry | 86 |
John Ashbery and the Interpersonal | 127 |
5 Amiri Baraka and the Poetics of Turning Away | 166 |
Barakas White Friend Blues | 194 |
OHara Ashbery and the Paradoxes of Friendship | 233 |
Conclusion | 275 |
Notes | 287 |
Works Cited | 331 |
Index | 345 |
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