In this collection, fourteen essayists break new ground by focusing on a new generation of postmodern poets who are clearly indebted to John Ashbery's work. This concentration on Ashbery's influence on contemporary American poetry provides new methods for interpreting and understanding his poetic achievement.
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"The Tribe of John is an impressive book that makes an important contribution to the understanding both of John Ashbery's work and of the cultural contexts at work in the making of contemporary American poetry. Susan Schultz has done a superb job of assembling an interesting, stimulating book."
—Hank Lazer, The University of Alabama
"The perspectives of scholars and poet-critics engage each other here in a provocative combination of exemplary cultural criticism, historically informed close readings, and theoretical sophistication. . . . The Tribe of John contributes significantly to how we understand both Ashbery and, more broadly, the complex dynamics of influence."
—Alan Golding, University of Louisville
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Susan M. Schultz is an assistnat professor of English at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. She has published three chapbooks of poetry, including Another Childhood (Leave Books, 1993). Her essays on modern and comtemporary American poetry have appeared in Raritan, Arizona Quarterly, Sagetrieb, and elsewhere. In 1992 she was president of the Hawaii Literary Arts Council.
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A capacious collection of post-Ashbery US poetics...,
This review is from: The Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry (Paperback)
This is a superb, well-crafted, and capacius collection of the post-Ashbery US poetics which pervades the very climate of Americanist thinking about poetic subjectivity, language, identity, the trauma of broken narcissism, the promise of the sublime after Wallace Stevens and Andre Breton and so on. The range of poets who consider themselves in what she calls "the tribe of John" is quite amazing in itself, what you might congregate as "the other tradition" of dis-Americanizing, wild, and risk-taking poetics from Bernstein to Creeley, Walter Lew, and John Yau et al. Saludos, Susan, for your care and transnational vision of the future. This is a fine work of cultural poetics, that should move out beyond poetry enclaves as such into "cultural studies." of US selfhood and the mongrel banality/ of American language.
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