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DARK HORSEY says-Memoir of his early years in poetry- confusion, despair, romance - & meetings & hi jinx with the then young elders of the New York School of Poets- O'Hara, Koch, Ashbery, Denby - & with the then-young 'young' of his own generation- Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Ron Padgett, Frank Lima and others.Tony Towle is one of the best of the second generation New York School poets. Winner of the first Frank O'Hara Award. His work is very distinctive within the NY School range- urbane, hilariously ornate, selfconscious, lyrical, discursive, a sensibility that is both Romantic &, at times, neo-Augustan, Pop & high-brow, thoughtful & playful, rhapsodic & dry. A really terrific poet. |
