The poetry known as New York School continues to exert a widespread influence on contemporary American writers. From its beginning, New York School poetry focused on the chaos, intensity, and disjunctiveness of daily life, particularly as it was and still is lived in New York City, where at any given moment there’s too much going on to absorb. Read more »
Genre(s): Experimental Period: 1960s to the present Lines: (from The Crystal Text)
As electricity is homeless. Continental baseless.
Bones to a radiant inner. Coaxless stocking
the brittle tone, sash of stone without a cord.
You leave me out in weathers, the languages,
the footless mounts. … Read more »
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