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experimental musie, and the interaction of friends in the New York City art world's yanauard circle.

■    Concerning the New York School poets, critics argued that their work was a reaction to the Confessionalist movement in Contemporary Poetry. Their poetic subject matter was often light, violent, or observational, while their writing style was often described as cosmopolitan and world-traveled. The poets often wrote in a direct, and immediate, spontaneous, manner reminiscent of word/paintings, and stream of consciousness writing, often using vivid, and visual imagery. They drew on inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-aarde art movements, in particular the action paintina of their friends in the New York City art world circle like lackson Pollock and Willem de Koonina.

■    Poets most often associated with the New York School are lohn Ashbery. Frank 0'Hara. Kenneth Koch, lames Schuyler. Barbara Guest. Ted Berriaan. Bernadettę Mayer. Alice Notley. Kenward Elmslie. Ron Padaett. Lewis Warsh, and loseph Cerayolo.

■    0'Hara was at the center of the group before his death in 1966. His numerous friendships and post as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, he provided connections between the poets and painters like lane Freilicher. Fairfield Porter and Larrv Rivers (also his lover). There were many joint works and collaborations: Rivers inspired a play by Koch, Koch and Ashbery together wrote the poem "A Postcard to Popeye", Ashbery and Schuyler wrote the novel A Nest of Ninnies, and Schuyler collaborated on an ode with 0'Hara, whose portrait was painted by Rivers.

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IOHN ASHBERY an American poet. He has published morę than twenty yolumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for I poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his |H|| collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But i - ■ Ashbery's work still proves controyersial. In an