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A Future York School was an informal class action of Western poets and painters active in 1950s New York City. Critics argued that their operate was the reaction to the Confessionalist movement in contemporary poetry. Their poetic subject matter wwhen typically lightly, violent, or even experimental, when their literary genre was typically described as cosmopolite & globe-traveled. A poets typically drew inspiration from either Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movement, in particular a action painting of their friends in the New York City art circle.
Poets virtually all typically associated using this class action come John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, Alice Notley, Barbara Guest, Kenward Elmslie and James Schuyler. Painters virtually all typically associated sustaining a class action come Jane Freilicher, Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, Joe Brainard and to a lesser extent Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. There are as well commonalities between a Future York School & a earliest Beat Generation poets active in 1940s and 1950s New York City.
Books
The New American Poetry, 1945-1960, Donald Merriam Allen, 1969
An Anthology of Just released York Poets, Ron Padgett (ed.) & David Shapiro (ed.), 1970
''Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters, Marjorie Perloff, 1977
A Previous Avant-Garde: A Making of the Future York School of Poets'', David Lehman, 1998
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