Beautiful enemies: friendship and postwar American poetry

Abstract

ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION 1. Situation the Avant-Garde in Postwar America COMMUNITY, INDIVIDUALISM, AND COLD WAR CULTURE 2. Emerson, Pragmatism, and the New American Poetry 3. My Force Is in Mobility SELFHOOD AND FRIENDSHIP IN FRANK O'HARA'S POETRY 4. Growing Up with Our Brothers All Around JOHN ASHBERY AND THE INTERPERSONAL 5. Amiri Baraka and the Poetics of Turning Away 6. Against the Speech of Friends BARAKA'S WHITE FRIEND BLUES 7. A Rainy Wool Frankie and Johnny O'HARA, ASHBERY, AND THE PARADOXES OF FRIENDSHIP CONCLUSION NOTES WORKS CITED INDEX