The New American Poetry, 1945-1960
10 best books like The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 (Donald M. Allen): Collected Works, Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 1: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude, Collected Poems, 1937-1971, The Maximus Poems, Next Life, The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets, The Collected Poems, Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, New Collected Poems, “A”
| Author | Lorine Niedecker |
| ISBN | 0520224337 |
"The Brontes had their moors, I have my marshes," Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry scene where she also made a home. Niedecker is one...
| Author | Jerome Rothenberg |
| ISBN | 0520072278 |
As we come to the end of the century, the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. Poems for the Millennium captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today, it reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of twentieth-century poetry.
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| Author | John Berryman |
| ISBN | 0374522812 |
John Allyn Berryman (originally John Allyn Smith) was an American poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry. He was the author of The Dream Songs, which...
| Author | Charles Olson |
| ISBN | 0520055950 |
Praised by his contemporaries and emulated by his successors, Charles Olson (1910-1970) was declared by William Carlos Williams to be "a major poet with a sweep of understanding of the world, a feeling for other men that staggers me." This complete edition brings together the three volumes of Olson's...
| Author | Rae Armantrout |
| ISBN | 0819568201 |
In her latest collection, Rae Armantrout considers the shaping effects of language in the context of new and frightening global realities. Attempting to imagine the unimaginable and see the unseen, Armantrout evokes a "next life" beyond the current, and too often degraded, one. From the new physics...
| Author | David Lehman |
| ISBN | 0385495331 |
A landmark work of cultural history that tells the story of how four young poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, reinvented literature and turned New York into the art capital of the world.
Greenwich Village, New York, circa 1951. Every night, at a rundown tavern...
| Author | Ted Berrigan |
| ISBN | 0520251555 |
Amazing collection. For those of us who had owned (and in my case, worn out) So Going Around Cities, the Collected surprises, since it is HUGE! and has a lot of work that we (or I) hadn't seen before. I knew Ted's work for years, sat in a class of his (with Alice) back in the 1970's at Naropa. For me, Ted's work...
| Author | Paul Hoover |
| ISBN | 0393310906 |
Postmodern American Poetry provides a deep and wide selection-411 poems by 103 poets-of the major poets and movements of the late twentieth century. Included are the leading Beat and New York School poets, the Projectivists, and "Deep Image" poets. Included, too, is the rich array of poetry written...
| Author | George Oppen |
| ISBN | 0811214885 |
George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poems published in books during his lifetime (1908-84), as well as previously uncollected poems and also a selection of his unpublished work. Oppen, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, has long been acknowledged as one of America's foremost...
| Author | Louis Zukofsky |
| ISBN | 0801846684 |
My sweet unworded, we fall into disuse,
The sense that attached to us persists
Despite the yellow page of local history
Sir Edmund Hilary encounters Roberto Duran(1), a meeting burnished in fugue -- one containing labor history and untranslated fragments, replete with diacritics...
| Author | Paul Auster |
| ISBN | 0394717481 |
During the 20th Century, France was home to many of the world's greatest poets. This collection highlights some of the very best verse that came out of a country and century defined by war and liberation. Let Paul Auster guide you through some of the best poetry that 20th century France has to offer.
"Indispensable...
| Author | John Ashbery |
| ISBN | 0140585850 |
A provocative, challenging masterpiece by John Ashbery that set a new standard for the modern prose poem
“The pathos and liveliness of ordinary human communication is poetry to me,” John Ashbery has said of this controversial work, a collection of three long prose poems originally published...
| Author | Robert Creeley |
| ISBN | 0520241592 |
This definitive collection showcases thirty years of work by one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight acclaimed books of poetry ranging from "Hello: A Journal "(1978) to "Life & Death" (1998) and "If I were...
| Author | Alice Notley |
| ISBN | 0819567728 |
Considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets, Alice Notley has amassed a body of work that includes intimate lyrics, experimental diaries, traditional genres, the postmodern series, the newly invented epic, political observation and invective, and the poem as novel....
The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures
| Author | Jack Spicer |
| ISBN | 0819563404 |
Within THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT resides in one volume the four historic talks given by controversial poet Jack Spicer just before his early death in 1965. These lively and provocative lectures function as a gloss to Spicer's own poetry, a general discourse on poetics, and a cautionary handbook for...
| Author | Juliana Spahr |
| ISBN | 0819565253 |
Juliana Spahr uses details to explore Hawai'i's politics of location and her own place in it as an outsider: a hard-core show where the singer shouts out "fuck you-aloha-I love you" over and over; the pidgin word 'da kine;' native Hawaiian rights to gathering; Palolo stream; the similarities and differences...
| Author | Lisa Robertson |
| ISBN | 0009739742 |
The Men is a work that will be both familiar and fresh to anyone who has read Lisa Robertson. As a poet Robertson has received unrivaled praise for her uncompromising intelligence and style. The Men will not only compliment her previous work, but will add a new layer as a far more personal and lyrical book...
| Author | Aram Saroyan |
| ISBN | 1933254254 |
Poetry. Visual Poetry. Long-cherished in out-of-print editions, anthologies and text books, and more recently celebrated on the internet, Aram Saroyan's groundbreaking concrete and minimalist poems of the 1960s are gathered together here in a single, much-needed volume. COMPLETE MINIMAL POEMS...
