...David Tomkins © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Hart Crane: After His Lights . By Brian M. Reed. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2006. x, 295 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $35.00. Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie . By Lytle Shaw. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2006. x...

...Brian Glavey Duke University Press 2007 Brian Frank O’Hara Nude with Boots: Glavey Queer Ekphrasis and the Statuesque Poet you were made in the image of God I was not I was made in the image of a sissy...

... Book Reviews 877 Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara: Difference/Homosexuality/Topography. By Hazel Smith. Liverpool, Eng.: Liverpool Univ. Press. 2000. ix, 230 pp. Cloth, $51.95; paper, $22.95...

... 199 Schuyler, Frank O’Hara, and John Ashbery—established the significance of their poetry exclusively in the daily processes of living and of writing poetry. Although the importance of process to these...

...Susan Albertine By Daniel T. O'Hara. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xiv, 370 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $22.95. By Stacey Olster. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. x, 299 pp. Cloth,$49.95; paper, $19.95. 2005 Book Reviews Memory’s Daughters: The Material Culture of...

... as a place in which to purchase recogni- tion through consumption, but as a site that can offer an “economic alternative to intersubjectivity” (50). Clune’s account of the phenomenological richness of the market- place in Frank O’Hara’s poetry is particularly compelling: the “speci- fication...

... Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America. By Daniel T. O’Hara. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xiv, 370 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $22.95. The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century. By Stacey Olster. Athens: Univ. of...

... prisms through which to articulate queer cultures and histories in the United States. Arthur L. Little Jr., University of California, Los Angeles Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America. By Daniel T. O’Hara. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xiv, 370 pp. Cloth, $69.95...

...., University of California, Los Angeles Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America. By Daniel T. O’Hara. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xiv, 370 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $22.95. The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American...

... Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America. By Daniel T. O’Hara. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xiv, 370 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $22.95. The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century. By Stacey Olster. Athens: Univ. of...

...., University of California, Los Angeles Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America. By Daniel T. O’Hara. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xiv, 370 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $22.95. The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American...

...., University of California, Los Angeles Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America. By Daniel T. O’Hara. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xiv, 370 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $22.95. The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American...

... Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America. By Daniel T. O’Hara. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xiv, 370 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $22.95. The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century. By Stacey Olster. Athens: Univ. of...

... Alfred Leslie—shed intriguing light on poets including Robert Dun- can, Robert Creeley, Frank O’Hara, Allen Ginsberg, and John Ash- bery, and on paradigms of postwar artistic lineage. O’Hara appears here not only enamored of “the movies” as popular culture, but also willing to...

... bananas, breasts, and penises [see fig. 3 Similarly, Randall takes a contrasting set of plantation stereo- types and loads them with commodity fetishism. Gerald O’Hara calls 780 American Literature the mulatto heroine of Randall’s novel his ‘‘Cinnamon while her mother (also known as Mammy to readers...

... to an aesthetics of the everyday. Any reader of contemporary poetry will recognize the value of such an ambitious project, for an interest in everydayness, as Epstein points out, has dominated the US scene for the sixty years since Frank O’Hara celebrated the beauty of sharing a trademarked cola. In...

... from previous generations.22 In a series of essays on Frank O’Hara, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, and Robin Blaser, Boone examines the determining role of queer identity when constrained by the violence of midcentury norms. His recovery project arguably constitutes one of the great...

... displays a striking negative image of a still from Gone with the Wind: a shot of Mammy lacing up Scarlett O’Hara’s corset. According to McPherson, Mammy ‘‘polices the borders of white southern womanhood’’ (56). The image seems to typify a major thread in McPherson’s argument and to illustrate the...

... titillatingly ‘‘inter-racial’’ romance between Rhett (or ‘‘Red Butler and Scarlet O’Hara. This study is both thorough and far-reaching. Yet for such a critically adept book its conceptual models for gendered and...

..., Elizabeth Keckley’s ambivalence to the authority of the Lincoln White House, and the titillatingly ‘‘inter-racial’’ romance between Rhett (or ‘‘Red Butler and Scarlet O’Hara. This study is both thorough and far...