| Description |
xiii, 433 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-430). |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
The Desert Music / William Carlos Williams -- from The Confucian Odes ; Canto XC ; from Canto CXV ; Canto CXVI / Ezra Pound -- from Hermetic Definition. Red Rose and a Beggar / H.D. -- from Holocaust: Massacres / Charles Reznikoff -- from Montage of a Dream Deferred / Langston Hughes -- "Who was Mary Shelley?" ; Paean to Place ; Darwin / Lorine Niedecker -- "A"-11 ; from "A"-15 ; from "A"-18 ; from Catullus LXIV / Louis Zukofsky -- The Signature of All Things ; Lyell's Hypothesis Again ; Andree Rexroth ; from The Love Poems of Marichiko / Kenneth Rexroth -- Route ; from Some San Francisco Poems / George Oppen -- The Kingfishers ; "The chain of memory is resurrection ..." ; from The Maximus Poems, Book III: Poem 143. The Festival Aspect / Charles Olson -- A Canticle to the Waterbirds / William Everson -- from Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) 1965-1967 / John Cage -- The Speed of Darkness ; Iris ; In the Underworld / Muriel Rukeyser -- At Tikal ; Metonymy as an Approach to a Real World ; The Mayan Glyphs Unread ; Corals and Shells ; The Plainest Narrative ; I Thought It Was Harry ; Where It Ends ; The World ; Life Supports ; The Strong Room of the House / William Brook -- Tribal Memories: Passages I ; The Moon: Passages 5 ; The Fire: Passages 13 ; Up Rising: Passages 25 ; Transgressing the Real: Passages 27 ; The Feast: Passages 34 / Robert Duncan -- from The Presidents of the United States of America / Jackson Mac Low -- The Jacob's Ladder ; To the Muse ; The Wings ; Advent 1966 ; A Tree Telling of Orpheus / Denise Levertov -- A Book of Music ; from Language: Thing Language / Jack Spicer -- At the Well ; from The Selection of Heaven ; Two poems by Bernart de Ventadorn / Paul Blackburn -- Mazatlan: Sea / Robert Creeley -- The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express ; Wales Visitation / Allen Ginsberg -- In Memory of My Feelings / Frank O'Hara -- Into the Dusk-Charged Air ; from The Skaters ; Syringa / John Ashbery -- from Lyrics for the Bride of God: Section: America (2): Seen as a Bird ; Journal of the Laguna de San Ignacio / Nathaniel Tarn -- Burning Island ; What You Should Know to Be a Poet ; What Happened Here Before ; from Mountains and Rivers Without End: The Hump-Backed Flute Player ; from Mountains and Rivers Without End: Earrings Dangling and Miles of Desert / Gary Snyder -- The 12th Horse Song of Frank Mitchell (Blue) ; Seneca Journal I: "A Poem of Beavers" ; Visions of Jesus ; Hunger / Jerome Rothenberg -- a list of the delusions of the insane/what they are afraid of ; Definitions for Mendy / David Antin -- Return of the Native ; For Maulana Karenga & Pharoah Sanders ; The Minute of Consciousness ; Study Peace ; A Poem for Deep Thinkers ; When We'll Worship Jesus ; Dope / Amiri Baraka -- Hades in Manganese ; Deeds Done and Suffered by Light / Clayton Eshleman -- from ARK: Beam 4 ; Beam 7 ; Beam 25: A Bicentennial Hymn ; Ark 37: Prospero's Songs to Ariel ... / Ronald Johnson -- "Those who are beautiful" ; Studying Horses / Robert Kelly -- Girandole ; Irises ; from The Earth as Air: An Ars Poetica / Gustaf Sobin -- Thorow / Susan Howe -- Peru Eye, The Heart of the Lamp ; from At Egypt / Clark Coolidge -- from Baudelaire Series ; Sun ; Recursus / Michael Palmer -- American Poetry Since 1950: A Very Brief History. |
| Summary |
Since Whitman and Dickinson, most of the major poetry in the United States has been written against the literary establishments and prevailing canons of taste, and often far from the cultural centers. This is the first anthology in many years to gather the work from this continuing tradition of innovators and outsiders, presenting poets and poems that are still excluded from the academic collections. Opening with the last poems of the Modernist masters Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and H.D., the book follows through four generations of writers who have been the primary figures of the new poetries and poetics since 1950. With a historical afterword, complete bibliographies, and generous selections from each of the thirty-five poets, this anthology is the only available introduction to the poets connected with such groups and movements as the Objectivists, the Beats, Black Mountain, the New York School, the San Francisco Renaissance, and ethnopoetics. American Poetry Since 1950 is a new map of the territory, an array of known and unknown contemporary classics. It is full of strange texts and startling procedures, histories and natural histories, high lyricism and extended meditations - extraordinary works that challenge our notions of what a poem ought to be. |
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Anthologie.
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Lyrik.
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United States.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1950-1992.
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1900-1999
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| Indexed Term |
American poetry 20th century |
| Added Author |
Weinberger, Eliot.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: American poetry since 1950. New York : Marsilio Publishers ; Saint Paul, MN : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, ©1993 (OCoLC)623489273 |
| ISBN |
0941419916 (hardcover) |
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9780941419918 (hardcover) |
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0941419924 (paperback) |
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9780941419925 (paperback) |
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