New York School Poets and the Neo-Avant-Garde

New York City was the site of a remarkable cultural and artistic renaissance during the 1950s and ''60s. In the first monograph to treat all five major poets of the New York School-John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Frank O''Hara, and James Schuyler-Mark Silverberg examines this rich period of cross-fertilization between the arts. Silverberg uses the term ''neo-avant-garde'' to describe Ne...