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Beautiful Enemies - Friendship and Postwar American Poetry (Hardcover, New)
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Beautiful Enemies - Friendship and Postwar American Poetry (Hardcover, New)
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Despite the deep-seated notion that the archetypal American poet
sings a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring
American poetry has actually been preoccupied with friendship and
its pleasures, contradictions, and discontents. Beautiful Enemies
examines this obsession with the problems and paradoxes of
friendship, tracing its eruption in the New American Poetry that
emerges after the Second World War as a potent avant-garde
movement. The book argues that a clash between friendship and
nonconformity is central to postwar American poetry and its
development. By focusing on of some of the most important and
influential postmodernist American poets-the New York School poets
John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and their close contemporary Amiri
Baraka-the book offers a new interpretation of the peculiar
dynamics of American avant-garde poetic communities and the role of
the individual within them. At the same time, this study challenges
both the reductive critiques of American individualism and the
idealized, heavily biographical celebrations of literary
camaraderie one finds in much critical discussion. Beautiful
Enemies foregrounds a fundamental paradox: that at the heart of
experimental American poetry pulses a commitment to individualism
and dynamic movement that runs directly counter to an equally
profound devotion to avant-garde collaboration and community.
Delving into unmined archival evidence (including unpublished
correspondence, poems, and drafts), the book demonstrates that this
tense dialectic-between an aversion to conformity and a poetics of
friendship-actually energizes postwar American poetry, drives the
creation, meaning, and form of important poems, frames the
interrelationships between certain key poets, and leaves
contemporary writers with a complicated legacy to negotiate.
Combining extensive readings of the poets with analysis of
cultural, philosophical, and biographical contexts, Beautiful
Enemies uncovers the collision between radical self-reliance and
the siren call of the interpersonal at the core of
twentieth-century American poetry
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