"One of the few things New York School poets agree on is that the New York School never really existed.... All of this makes them a challenge to write an academic book about."
Interestingly, I've written an academic book about exactly this!
Nick Sturm
A great review-essay about CONVERSATIONS WITH NEW YORK SCHOOL POETS in the New York Review of Books!
Poetry, gossip, publishing, New York, economics--what's not to love?
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
An oral history of the New York School Poets suggests how its successive cohorts have changed over the years.