Books in the Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics series

Examines John Ashbery's poetry through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's conception of phenomenology. Elisabeth Joyce argues that this reflects Ashbery's classic statement of poetry being the 'experience of experience'.

John Wieners was a queer self-styled poete maudit who was renowned among his contemporaries but ignored by mainstream critics. He was a voluble letter writer, maintaining friendships with contemporaries that spanned decades. The letters collected here are enhanced by Eileen Myles's preface and Stewart's introduction.

In February 1978, the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E newsletter established the first public venue for the thriving correspondence of an emerging set of ambitious young poets. This volume makes available in print all twelve of the newsletter's original issues along with three supplementary issues.

Edited by poet and scholar Ryan Dobran, this volume of correspondence between the American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) and the English poet J. H. Prynne (b. 1936) sheds light on a little-known but incredibly influential aspect of twentieth-century transatlantic literary culture. Never before published, the letters capture their shared passion for knowledge as well as their distinct writing styles. Written between 1961 and Olson's death in 1970, the letters display the mutual admiration and intimacy that developed between the two poets after Prynne initiated their exchange when pursuing work for the literary magazine Prospect. This work illustrates how Olson and Prynne influenced each other, and it represents an important step toward understanding their contributions to poetics on both sides of the Atlantic.