John Yau :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
John Yau is an art critic, essayist, editor, poet, and prose writer. He received his B.A. from Bard College and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College. The author of more than thirty books, his most recent collection of poetry is Paradiso Diaspora (2006).
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Mackey in Cork, Ireland, 2005. Courtesy of the author. In an era when poetry is increasingly compressed to fit our iPhone screens, Nathaniel Mackey has been writing two astonishing long poems—“Mu” and Song of the Andoumboulou—across multiple books for the past thirty-five years.“Mu” and Song of the Andoumboulou are two ongoing sequences beaded with his insights on cosmology, grief.
Luckily, My Lost Poets, a posthumous collection of Levine’s essays and lectures, chips away at death’s tyranny.Through these pieces, Levine comes back to life and pays homage to his influences. Resurrecting the likes of Wilfred Owen, Billie Holiday, William Carlos Williams, and George Hitchcock of Kayak magazine, he recalls a life lived in dialogue with all poets everywhere.
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The Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry Susan M. Schultz. In this collection, fourteen essayists break new ground by focusing on a new generation of postmodern poets who are clearly indebted to John Ashbery's work. This concentration on Ashbery's influence on contemporary American poetry provides new methods for interpreting and understanding his poetic achievement. Categories.