Description: Maggie Nelson provides the first extended consideration of the roles played by women in and around the New York School of poets, from the 1950s to the present, and offers unprecedented analyses of the work of Barbara Guest, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, Eileen Myles, and abstract painter Joan Mitchell as well as a reconsideration of the work of many male New York School writers and artists from a feminist perspective.
Review Quotes: " So many times over the years I’ ve been asked, What’ s it like to be a woman in rock music? It’ s always been sort of a paralyzing question-to answer it is to give the question itself meaning. Maggie Nelson here opens it all up for examination with this incredibly timely and astute book." -Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth