Résumé

Contents : Modus vivendi / Carter Ratcliff -- Foreword / Bill Berkson -- This leaving out business : introduction -- I. In public, in private, 1935-1948. The silence at night (the designs on the sidewalk Bill pointed out) / Edwin Denby ; The thirties / Edwin Denby -- II. Modernism in the lyrical laconic, 1948-1955. From the journals of Grace Hartigan ; Why I am not a painter / Frank O'Hara ; Larry Rivers : a memoir / Frank O'Hara ; Jan Freilicher / John Ashbery -- III. Go on your nerve, 1955-1968. Song heard around St. Bridget's / Bill Berkson & Frank O'Hara ; The car / Jane Freilicher & Kenneth Koch ; How to proceed in the arts / Frank O'Hara & Larry Rivers ; Fairfield Porter to James Schuyler ; Crone rhapsody / John Ashbery & Kenneth Koch ; Frank O'Hara to John Ashbery and Pierre Martory ; Frank O'Hara to Jasper Johns ; Alex Katz paints a picture / James Schuyler ; From life among the stones / Larry Rivers -- IV. Depth and surface, 1962-1966. Sonnet XV & sonnet LIX / Ted Berrigan ; Back in Tulsa again / Joe Brainard ; From A conversation with Kenneth Koch / John Ashbery & Kenneth Koch ; An interview with John Cage / Ted Berrigan -- V. Continuing the conversation, 1966-1975. Three poems from The world of Leon / Bill Berkson, Michael Brownstein, Larry Fagin, & Ron Padgett ; Ted Berrigan to Joe Brainard ; What is money? / Joe Brainard ; The invisible avant-garde / John Ashbery ; New York diary 1967* / Lewis Warsh ; From Oo la la / Ron Padgett -- VI. Not together, but some place, 1975-. I got east / Eileen Myles & Alice Notley ; Arriverderci, modernismo / Carter Ratcliff ; April dream / Anne Waldman ; from Yo-yo's with money / Ted Berrigan & Harris Schiff ; From The basketball article / Bernadette Mayer & Anne Waldman ; From The ballad of Popeye and William Blake / Allen Ginsberg & Kenneth Koch ; From Land's end / Charles North & Tony Towle ; The N.Y. poetry scene/short form / Charles North.