Product Description: Since the publication of Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben has become one of the world's most revered and controversial thinkers. His ideas on our current political situation have found many supporters as well as garnering strong criticism from some quarters...read more

Product Description: This is the first full-length comparative academic study of the four major figures of the New York School of poets: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. Applying recent theoretical advances in the study of avant-garde and experimental writing, the book puts forward an alternative method of reading post-modern poetry based on the need for concentration on the poem as 'in process', rather than a finished product...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)