Hardwick, Elizabeth 1984
Tuesday, December 4, 1984
Vintage poster of Elizabeth Hardwick’s reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
– Elizabeth Hardwick
Read an interview with Elizabeth Hardwick:
The Paris Review
Elizabeth Hardwick, ca. 1985 Elizabeth Hardwick lives on the west side of Manhattan, on a quiet street near enough to Central Park to have heard the crowds and speakers at the great political demonstrations in Sheep’s Meadow. Her apartment is light and spacious. “Like modern architecture,” she says, “it looks much better in photographs.”
