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You Are The You: Writings and Interviews on Poetry, Art, and the New York School

You Are The You: Writings and Interviews on Poetry, Art, and the New York School

Shapiro, David
Farrell, Kate
Lehman, David

Paperback

Letters & EssaysGeneral PoetryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1952335914
ISBN13: 9781952335914
Publisher: Madhat, Inc.
Published: Jan 15 2025
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Poetry is magic after Rimbaud, Shapiro writes at 17 in the prescient piece that opens the volume-then goes on in the works that follow to dis- seminate the magic. His bent is artistic and pluralistic; a sui generis mix of lightness and depth, of wide-minded, many-angled, improvisatory verve and great freshness of thought and language. Sympathetic insight into the aesthetic processes of others is his forte. He invokes William James: love discerns more than blinding objectivity. He relates the discontinuities of John Ashbery to the Uncertainty Principle and notes that Frank Lima's use of the disjunctive poetics of the New York School is an art of welding disparate worlds together. It's an art innate to Shapiro's prose, where voic- es and ideas from multiple perspectives combine to shed light on a work, amplify a discussion, deepen a context. Likewise, the interviews are rivet- ing partly because of the candor and camaraderie with which he brings the words and views of other thinkers into his replies ... As for the New York School, thanks in part to David Shapiro's remarkable elucidations, it's a movement that has expanded the sayable for innumerable poets and read- ers and remains a liberating, poetry-wide force.

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