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Cover -- Frank O'hara's New York School And Mid-century Mannerism: Perfectly Disgraceful -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Permissions -- Image Permissions -- List Of Illustrations -- Epilogue -- Preface -- The Paragone Of The New York School -- Introduction: New York School Mannerisms -- Mannerism -- The Interdisciplinary Rhetoric Of Maniera -- A Genealogy Of Rhetoric -- Chapter Summaries -- 1. Sprezzatura: Diligent Negligence -- You Just Go On Your Nerve -- The Renaissance Of Sprezzatura -- Disgrace -- Difficulty -- The Difficulty Of Death The Difficulty Of Love: Lost Time -- The Difficulty Of Love: Distraction -- The Difficulty Of Love: Disquiet -- The Art Of Diligent Negligence -- Injudicious Affectation -- Denoting Camp -- Sprezzatura And Race: 'the Successful Syndrome Of The Cool' -- 2. Grace: 'joyous Irony In Tenderest Pathos' -- In Public, In Private -- A Step Away From Them -- The Consubstantiation Of Grace -- Elegy -- Balanchine's Poetics -- The Flight Of The Dancer: The Transcendental -- Bach In Bathing Suits: The Constructivist -- Balanchine's Elephant Ballet: The Vernacular Some Thoughts About Classicism And George Balanchine -- A Genealogy Of Grace -- Unconscious Grace And Grace Of Irony -- 3. Agon: 'the Energy Of Contradictory Actions' -- Three Moments Of Agonism: Classical, Mannerist, And Mid-century -- Renato Poggioli's Avant-gardeagon -- Nietzsche's Agon -- Agonal Communities Of Taste -- The New York School Of The 1930s -- The Pindaric -- Three Sides Of 'ode To Willem De Kooning' -- 4. Figura Serpentinata: 'and Now It Is The Serpent's Turn' -- Figura Serpentinata -- Queer Figures -- The Cancerous Statue -- The Serpent -- Rhetorical Turns 5. Frank Speech: 'the Living Ought To Be Alive In Every Part' -- Ornate Poetics -- Paul Valéry: The Order Of The Serpent -- Frank Speech -- Explosive Grief And Anger -- The Sun's Motto -- To Hell With Content -- Apostrophe Or Invocation -- 'it' -- 6. Marvellous: 'remember Life's Marvell