Afterlives of the New York School of Poets An Anthology

A Preface Angela Ball

Introduction David Lehman

1. Groucho Marxism 

Billy Collins, In Praise of Ignorance

Jordan Davis, For a Dollar I’ll Tell You What You Are Dying to Hear, Which Is All of It

David Hernandez, Hello I Must Be Going

Elaine Equi, For Years, I Suffered from a Strange Melody

Chad Foret, We May Never Get Back Here

Matt Hart, Dear Berserker

Loren Goodman, Who Would Win

Barbara Hamby, Ode on My Prison

Bob Hicok, Civilization, as I Understand It

David Kirby, I Wish I Were a Cannibal

Julia Johnson, Failure

Dylan Loring, Pardon My French

Jerome Sala, A Man and a Woman

Martin Stannard, That Thing

William Stobb, Beep Boop

Lee Upton, The Great Adventure

2. The Urbane Pastoral 

James Appleby, I Lived Once beside a Slaughterhouse

Anselm Berrigan, What the Streets Look Like

Annette C. Boehm, Iridology

Collin Callahan, Deerfield Crossing

Mark Halliday and Martin Stannard, The Bucket and the Rain

Ron Horning, Layaway

Justin Jamail, Early April Subway

Cate Marvin, Black Umbrella

Trey Moody, The Way to Work

Chris Nealon, Wait a Minute

Catherine Pierce, The Town Dreams the Tornado Apologizes

Charles North, Crepuscule with Paula

Pam Rehm, This Tender Riot of Chaos

Matthew Rohrer, Prisoners

C.T. Salazar, Forgive Yourself for Seeing It Wrong

Joel Stein, Through a Country

Angelo Verga, Under Scaffolding across from Saint Nicholas Park

Melinda Wilson, Scene Under

Jianqing Zheng, Birds of Passage

3. Phenomenal Bodies 

Dara Barrois/Dixon, 95% of Thoroughbred Horses Descend from Eclipse

Laura Cronk, To My Twenties

James Cummins, Ode to Sycamores

Rebecca Morgan Frank, The Grande Dame

John Gallaher, Garden of Mirrors (Architecture 23)

Amy Gerstler, Night Life

Diana Goetsch, You Could

Jessica Guzman, Ode at the Hospital

Noelle Kocot, Crystal Gayle

Dean Young, Chaos Magic for Beginners

Sharon Mesmer, I Have Thirteen Penises

Ron Padgett, Over There

Eugene Richie, Early New York Evening

Michael Robins, Called Back

Catherine Wagner, The City Has Sex with Everything

Tyrone Williams, Border Clashes

Matthew Yeager, The Ongoing Lamentation of Anna Nicole Smith

Matthew Zapruder, Poem for a Suicide

4.Stendhal Syndrome 

Nin Andrews, Sometimes I Feel So Inspired

Allison Campbell, Stendhal Syndrome

Jennifer Grotz, The Crows

Jennifer Michael Hecht, September

Nathan Hoks, Poem for Wendy’s Eyes

Major Jackson, Nothing to See Here, Move Along

Claudia Keelan, Life-Sentence(s)

Kirsten Kaschock, My Students Want My Tenure

Todd Osborne, First, Second, Third Person (with a line from Robert Creeley)

Allan Peterson, A Horse Remembers

Donald Revell, Senesco Sed Amo

Mary Ruefle, Müller and Me

Paul Violi, Extended Shortages

5. Exphrasticism 

Star Black, Feather-Flown

Hannah Dow, Another Summer without Classical Music

Denise Duhamel, Dear American Amnesia,

Mark Ford, Six Children

Dobby Gibson, Poem for an Antique Korean Fishing Bobber

George Green, Gone with the Wind

Mark Halliday, Merciless Youth

Paul Hoover, Written (after Szymborska)

Dorothea Lasky, The Ballet

David Lehman, I Remember

Anthony McCann, Deseret for John Ashbery

Jon Riccio, Anne Sexton’s Death, 45 Years Ago Today

David Shapiro, After Ryokan

Richard Stull, Country Music

Kevin Thomason, Black-and-White Photograph of a Relative

Rosanne Wasserman, Museum Quantity

Jane Zwart, Poem with a Hole in It

Acknowledgements 

Index

Biography

Angela Ball is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA. She is the author of seven books of poetry and writer of the column “The New York School Diaspora,” for The Best American Poetry blog. She lives with two dogs, Miss Bishop and Boy.