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Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School

Something Like a Liveable Space

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  • Extends discussions of the New York School and the relationship between poetry and space
  • Develops a lexicon for reading poetry and architecture
  • Aims to deepen understanding of poetic dwelling in the twenty-first century

Part of the book series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (MPCC)

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Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School: Something Like a Liveable Space examines the relationship between poetics and architecture in the work of the first generation New York School poets, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, and James Schuyler. Reappraising the much-debated New York School label, Mae Losasso shows how these writers constructed poetic spaces, structures, surfaces, and apertures, and sought to figure themselves and their readers in relation to these architextual sites. In doing so, Losasso reveals how the built environment shapes the poetic imagination and how, in turn, poetry alters the way we read and inhabit architectural space. Animated by archival research and architectural photographs, Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School marks a decisive interdisciplinary turn in New York School studies, and offers new frameworks for thinking about postmodern American poetry in the twenty-first century.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Warwick, Oxford, UK

    Mae Losasso

About the author

Mae Losasso is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

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