Statutes of Liberty (1993) was the first book on The New York School of Poets, and offers the definitive critical account of its key figures: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler. This second edition contains up-to-date material on the group and its growing influence on postmodern poetics. A new postscript focuses on the work of Ashbery, currently the most esteemed American poet since Wallace Stevens, and his profile output in the 1990s, including his two hundred page epic poem Flow Chart.

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GEOFF WARD is Professor of English at the University of Dundee. His publications include Language Poetry and the American Avant-garde (1993); he edited The Bloomsbury Guide to Romantic Literature, and is co-editor of Re: Joyce (1998). He has recently been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship in order to write a critical biography of John Ashbery.

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Copyright Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction: The New York School of Poets James Schuyler and the Rhetoric of Temporality Frank O'Hara: Accident and Design Ashbery and Influence Lyric Poets in the Era of Late Capitalism Postscript: Going Around Cities Post-Postscript: The New York School at the Millennium Notes Bibliography Index