New YorkSchool Painters & Poets charts the collaborative milieu of New YorkCity poets and artists in the mid-twentieth century. This unprecedented volumecomprehensively reproduces rare ephemera, collecting and reprintingcollaborations, paintings, drawings, poetry, letters, art reviews, photographs,dialogues, manifestos, and memories. Jenni Quilter offers a chronologicalsurvey of this milieu, which includes artists such as Willem de Kooning, RobertMotherwell, Alex Katz, Jasper Johns, Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, GeorgeSchneeman, and Rudy Burckhardt, plus writers John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, TedBerrigan, Joe Brainard, Edwin Denby, Larry Fagin, Frank O’Hara, Charles North,Ron Padgett, James Schuyler, Anne Waldman, and more.

“Giving us for thefirst time a full picture of the scene these artists and writers shared,”writes Carter Ratcliff in his foreword, “this book illuminates the unities andtensions, the playfulness and glamour and startling authenticity of their collaborations.Here we not only see evidence of a modus operandi. We also feel the exuberanceof a certain modus vivendi, a way of life.”

By Jenni Quilter,Edited by Allison Power, with Advisory Editors: Bill Berkson and Larry Fagin,and Forewords by Bill Berkson and Carter Ratcliff