Notley Alice. Coming After: Essays on Poetry

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. — 192 p. — (Poets on Poetry) — ISBN-10: 0472068598; ISBN-13: 978-0472068593.Coming After gathers critical pieces by acclaimed poet Alice Notley, author of Mysteries of Small Houses and Disobedience. Notley explores the work of second-generation New York School poets and their allies: Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Ron Padgett, Lorenzo Thomas, and others. These essays and reviews are among the first to deal with a generation of poets notorious for their refusal to criticize and theorize, assuming the stance that "only the poems matter." The essays are characterized by Notley's strong, compelling voice, which transfixes the reader even in the midst of professional detail. Coming After revives the possibility of the readable book of criticism.ContentsPoetsO’Hara in the Nineties
Joanne Kyger’s Poetry
Ron Padgett’s Visual Imagination
Hollo’s Corvus
Elmslie’s Routine Disruptions
Eileen Myles in Performance
A Certain Slant of Sunlight
Iovis Omnia Plena
Lorenzo Thomas: A Private Public Space
Douglas Oliver’s New York Poem
SteveTopicsAmerican Poetic Music at the Moment
Voice
Thinking and Poetry
Women and Poetry
The “Feminine” Epic