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- PAGE 86-87: “I know of no better way to describe O’Hara’s poetry than as an structure of observation, criticism, and solidarity,’”Body as city, body as metaphor“It’s also worth noting that at the same time that the first generation New York School profs were hanging out in Greenwich Village, an enormous drama was playing out between highway-obsessed urban planners—Robert Moses, mainly—and Village residents...Jane Jacobs...Indeed, if Jacobs and her fellow activists had not prevailed, an enormou...
If you're looking for models for how to do literary criticism (as I am), you could do a a lot worse! Plus, criticism or poetry, Maggie Nelson is a joy to read.
Excellent! Nelson's huge list of talents includes nimble literary analysis and an obvious love of research. As with all of her work, her true strength lies in the imaginative leaps she makes between her insights, which are consistently unique, clear and poignant. A beautiful and beautifully written study that moves quickly through a hard earned path of questioning.
It took me a while to read this book, but it was totally worth it. I love Maggie Nelson, and this is a wonderful study on women in the New York School. I will be coming back to this book many times more. I am left with a long reading list, and very curious of many poets I did not know about. Loved it and enjoyed it very much. It was like taking a poetry course.
This is another excellent addition to Nelson's bibliography . . . albeit far more academic (for some people) in terms of citations and all the other academic requirements . . . but my gosh: the sheer breadth of Nelson's reading, in that she (in the index and notes) mentions just about everyone else (poets/writers) that she wasn't able to focus on. Given the density of the text, I chose not to read it back to front, but read bits of the beginning and then the chapters on Alice Notley and Bernadet...
if you're interested in poetry, or the new york school, or women, or abstraction, or writing, or maggie nelson, or eileen myles, or music, or anything marginally aligned to the previous list, you should read this book.
She's such a good writer, but I probably won't read much more of this book--too academicalogical. Skimming the Eileen Myles and Alice Notley chapters though--good juice in there and fine observations throughout, often in the footnotes.
