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New York School

4 poetas, 1925 –

  1. Frank O'Hara

    1926 – 1966

    Francis Russell O'Hara was born on June 27, 1926, in Baltimore, Maryland, to an Irish-Catholic family that would later move to Massachusetts.

  2. Kenneth Koch

    1925 – 2002

    Some gifts come at a price. Kenneth Koch's talent for humor has somewhat cornered him in a weird Olympus for not-quite-serious poets against substantial evidence of greatness. The oh-how-I-suffer school of look-at-me-I-am-a-serious-poet poetry seems to have welcomed him with…

  3. John Ashbery

    1927 –

    John Ashbery born in Rochester, New York, in 1927, John Ashbery, the best-known poet of the New York School, graduated from Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and then went to Harvard, where he studied English. A precocious poet, by then he already had two of his poems published…

  4. Charles Simic

    1938 –

    In brutally rough terms, Simic is a sort of Ashbery with roots and a sad childhood. "Originality" seems to be the word here. Both share a talent for irony, as well as a vague affinity for (some) surrealism, expressed in their attempts at erasing the dividing line between reality…