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The Last Avant-Garde

the making of the New York School of Poets

by David Lehman

1998 433 pages eng

A landmark work of cultural history--now in paperback--by one of our best critics and chroniclers: the story of how four young poets reinvented literature and turned New York into the art capital of the world. Greenwich Village, New York, circa 1951. Every night, at a rundown tavern with a magni…

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