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Forties movies, fifites TV, the sixties New York art scene, and the world of Off-Broadway inhabit these marvelous poems by an influential member of the New York Schools boisterous second generation. New poems touch on his friendships with Frank OHara and John Ashbery, and on the death of Elmslie's friend and lover, the artist/poet Joe Brainard.

"These virtually image-less poems, with their titles and lines centered on the page, about two per, are a forum in which their subjects comment with biting irony on what is mostly a sense of life's futility....Kenward Elmslie is a problem child with a pen, and ROUTINE DISRUPTIONS, is a book anyone interested in modern poetry needs to own. His twinkling wit and linguistic sword swallowing make for the consistently irreal."

Jim Cory, Lambda Book Report, April 1999

Routine Disruptions: Selected Poems & Lyrics 1960-1998: Search Results