Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the lives and works of Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, close friends and leading lights of the New York School, who sought to create an anti-academic, hedonistic poetry, freeing themselves from the puritan American tradition.
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Further reading on O'Hara and Ashbery in the LRB:
C.K. Stead: https://lrb.me/steadashberypod
John Bayley: https://lrb.me/bayleyashberypod
Stephanie Burt: https://lrb.me/burtashberypod
John Kerrigan: https://lrb.me/kerriganashberypod
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in June 2022.
