A sequel to the "New York Poets" anthology, this book presents poems by the contemporaries of John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler, and by the inheritors of their legacy.

Winner of the SFSU Poetry Center Book Award (2010)

One of the most notable members of the New York School--and its best-known woman--Barbara Guest began writing poetry in the 1950s in company that included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler. And from the beginning, her practice placed her at the vanguard of American writing. Guest's poetry, saturated in the visual arts, extended the formal experiments of modernism, and played the abstract qualities of language against its sensuousness and materiality. Now, for the first time, all of her published poems...