{"product_id":"relatability-brian-glavey-9780226854267","title":"Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did Frank O'Hara and other New York School poets--a small coterie associated with experimental art and gay culture --become fixtures in today's culture, quoted on prestige television shows, in teen romances, and at the wedding ceremonies of straight celebrities? How, in other words, did these poets become so relatable? Brian Glavey's \u003ci\u003eRelatability \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of an aesthetic as it traveled from a cluster of mostly queer poets in the middle of the twentieth century to become increasingly central to everyday life in the early twenty-first century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat the New York School poets are more relatable now than they were during their own lifetime speaks in part to the growing acceptance of same-sex desire in American culture. But Glavey argues that this transformation also tells the story of a shift in the way that aesthetic experience is understood to work. Moving away from forms of modernist impersonality, O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, and Joe Brainard made sociability central to the experience of art and literature. Attempting to share their experience of works of art, they were willing to risk the reader's judgment that they had, perhaps, overshared. Glavey advances an idea of aesthetic judgment that takes seriously its missed connections as well as its successes. \u003ci\u003eRelatability \u003c\/i\u003eadds a fresh perspective to current conversations around attachment and affect in literary studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Glavey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226854264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226854267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Brian Glavey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801361461503,"sku":"9780226854267","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/relatability-brian-glavey-9780226854267","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}