La escuela poética de Nueva York

Between the end of the fifties and the beginning of the sixties, New York displaced Paris and London as the cultural capital of the world: a fairy tale city, the setting for thousands of films, a refuge for talent, a place of pilgrimage for millions of aspirants, a place where ideas, budgets, and the most innovative artistic trends were boiling. Cinemas, museums, bookstores, showrooms, theaters ... Everything converged on the fabulous island of Manhattan. And poetry was not going to be less. Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Barbara Guest and James Schuyler constituted a school of open poetry, without dogmas or manifestos, based on the affinity of characters, and on a taste for play, surprise, imagination without restrictions and a tireless inventiveness. It can be said that after Frank O'Hara's walks through New York, John Ashbery's elusive mental landscapes, Kock's slyness, Barbara Guest's broken elegance and Schuyler's hallucinations ... poetry has not returned. be the same. We present an extensive anthology of poems refractory to solemnity and transcendence, devoted to formal innovation, elegance and humor.