New York Poets II

from Edwin Denby to Bernadette Mayer

Ford Mark

Mark Ford's "The New York Poets": an anthology, selections from the work of John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler, provided an exhilarating introduction to the innovations of the "New York school". "New York Poets II" celebrates its continuing vitality. The painter and writer Trevor Winkfield, who has worked in New York since the 1960s, joins Mark Ford in mapping this radical space. After a general preface, each selection from the eleven poets is preceded by an introduction; the bibliography provides a guide to major publications.

About the Author

Mark Ford was born in 1962. His publications include two collections of poetry, "Landlocked" (Chatto & Windus 1991, 1998) and "Soft Sift" (Faber & Faber 2001, Harcourt Brace 2003); a critical biography of the French poet, playwright and novelist Raymond Roussel ("Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams", Faber & Faber, 2000, Cornell University Press, 2001), a collection of essays, "A Driftwood Altar" (Waywiser Press, 2005), a 20,000-word interview with John Ashbery ("Between the Lines", 2003), and, for Carcanet, The New York Poets, an anthology of poems by Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler (2003), "The New York Poets II: An Anthology" (2006) and "Why I am not a painter" and other poems, a selection of the poetry of "Frank O'Hara" (2003). Mark Ford is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He teaches in the English department at University College, London.

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