Statutes of Liberty is the first full-length academic study of the New York School of Poets. It contains an introduction to the work of these writers, followed by chapters on the central figures: Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler and John Ashbery. A postscript examines the continuing and changing influence of the New York School. The book is also concerned with deconstruction, a mode of literary analysis with which Ashbery's work in particular has come to be associated by critics in America.

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Acknowledgements - Introduction - James Schuyler and the Rhetoric of Temporality - Frank O'Hara: Accident and Design - A Lyric Poet in the Era of Late Capitalism? - The Look of Glass - Ashbery's Recklessness - Conclusion - Index