Women, The New York School, And Other True Abstractions by Maggie Nelson

A collection of sharp, personal essays that reconsiders the work of women affiliated with the mid‑20th century New York School, blending close readings, cultural history, and memoir to trace how gender, form, and abstraction intersect in poetry and visual art. The book argues for a nuanced recovery of overlooked female artists and poets, exploring how their experiments with lyric voice, visuality, and erotic subjectivity complicate dominant narratives of the avant‑garde while refusing reductive feminist pigeonholing.

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