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New American Poetry, 1945-1960

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ISBN-10: 0520209532

ISBN-13: 9780520209534

Edition: 1999

Authors: Donald Allen

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With more than 100,000 copies sold, The New American Poetry has become one of the most influential anthologies published in the United States since World War II. As one of the first counter-cultural collections of American verse, this volume fits in Robert Lowell's famous definition of the raw in American poetry. Many of the contributors once derided in the mainstream press of the period are now part of the postmodern canon: Olson, Duncan, Creeley, Guest, Ashbery, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Levertov, O'Hara, Snyder, Schuyler, and others. Donald Allen's The New American Poetry delivered the first taste of these remarkable poets, and the book has since become an invaluable historical and cultural…    
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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/27/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 479
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Preface
The Kingfishers
I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
The Songs of Maximus
Maximus, to himself
The Death of Europe
A Newly Discovered 'Homeric' Hymn
The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs
As the Dead Prey Upon Us
Variations Done for Gerald van de Wiele
The Distances
The Song of the Borderguard
An Owl Is an Only Bird of Poetry
This Place Rumord To Have Been Sodom
The Dance
The Question
A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar
Food for Fire, Food for Thought
Dream Data
Beyond the End
The Hands
Merritt Parkway
The Way Through
The Third Dimension
Scenes from the Life of the Peppertrees
The Sharks
The Five-Day Rain
Pleasure
The Goddess
The Continuity
The Assistance
Night Song for Two Mystics
The Problem
Sirventes
The Once-over
The Encounter
The Innocence
The Kind of Act of
The Immoral Proposition
A Counterpoint
The Warning
The Whip
A Marriage
Ballad of the Despairing Husband
If You
Just Friends
The Three Ladies
The Door
The Awakening
The Way
Father
A Fete
Noise grimaced
B
Environ s
Open
A Gone
Passages
Keep me still, for I do not want to dream
Do it yrself
The Rick of Green Wood
Vaquero
The Hide of My Mother
Are They Dancing
The Air of June Sings
When the Fairies
A Little Tumescence
The Switch Blade (or, John's Other Wife)
Those Troublesome Disguises
The Distances to the Friend
Fast Ball
The Bath
The Bus Trip
The Feeding
Mare Nostrum
Blue Funk
I Love My Love
Advent
A Canticle to the Waterbirds
The South Coast
Feathers or Lead?
Once and Upon
Pictures of the Gone World
A Coney Island of the Mind
HE
Poem by the Charles River
A 4 Part Geometry Lesson
Poem
Herons
Poem
Imaginary Elegies, I-IV
Chicago Poem
After Anacreon
Musica no. 3
Dance with Banderillas
Moon Is to Blood
Terror Conduction
"Man is in pain"
Morning Light Song
Still Poem 9
This Is What the Watchbird Sings, Who Perches in the Lovetree
Sanctuary
Venice Recalled
Strange
Some Stories of the Beauty Wapiti
"Each Found Himself at the End of ..."
Mexico City Blues: 12 Choruses
The Shrouded Stranger
Malest Cornifici Tuo Catullo
Sunflower Sutra
A Supermarket in California
Howl, Parts I and II
Sather Gate Illumination
Message
Kaddish, Parts I, III, IV, V
Birthplace Revisited
Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway
Zizi's Lament
Uccello
But I Do Not Need Kindness
Dialogue -- 2 Dollmakers
Paranoia in Crete
A Dreamed Realization
From Another Room
Notes After Blacking Out
Marriage
Second Poem
Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher
Sunday Evening
Santa Fe Trail
Piazzas
Salute
February
"The Elizabethans Called It Dying"
Freely Espousing
A View of Jersey
The Floor Is Dirty
Mending Sump
Fresh Air
Thank You
Chez Jane
For James Dean
Ode
Why I Am Not a Painter
In Memory of My Feelings
Ode to Joy
To Hell with It
Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets
Ode to Michael Goldberg ('s Birth and Other Births)
The Day Lady Died
You Are Gorgeous and I'm Coming
Poem
Poem
In Favor of One's Time
Hotel Transylvanie
A Boy
The Instruction Manual
"How Much Longer Will I Be Able To Inhabit the Divine Sepulcher ..."
Martyrdom of Two Pagans
2 Variations: All About Love
Sourdough Mountain Lookout
Denunciation: or, Unfrock'd Again
The Same Old Jazz
Forty-five Years Since the Fall of the Ch'ing Dynasty
For C
Take I, 4:II:58
A Classic Case
The Zoo
Flowers for Luis Bunuel
The Recluses
Feasts of Death, Feasts of Love
Praise for Sick Women
Riprap
For a Far-out Friend
This Tokyo
Myths and Texts, Part III: Burning
Leave the Word Alone
The Breech
The Rug
Hymn to St. Geryon, I
Canticle
Peyote Poem, Part I
Ode for Soft Voice
For Artaud
The Flowers of Politics, I
The Flowers of Politics, II
Poem of Holy Madness, Part IV
Blood
In Memory of Radio
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
Way Out West
One Night Stand
To a Publisher ... cut-out
Ostriches and Grandmothers!
The Turncoat
A poem for painters
A poem for the old man
A poem for museum goers
A poem for the insane
A poem for trapped things
Pastoral
Insomniac Poem
The Thing Made Real
The Stillness of the Poem
Mrs. Loewinsohn andc
My Sons
Revelation
12th Raga / for John Wieners
15th Raga / for Bela Lugosi
Prayerwheel / 2
Statements on Poetics
Charles Olson: Projective Verse
Letter to Elaine Feinstein
Robert Duncan: Pages from a Notebook
Robert Creeley: To Define
Olson and Others: Some Orts for the Sports
Denise Levertov
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Jack Spicer: Letter to Lorca
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg: Notes for Howl and Other Poems
James Schuyler: Poet and Painter Overture
Frank O'Hara
Philip Whalen
Gary Snyder
Michael McClure: From a Journal
LeRoi Jones: "How You Sound??"
John Wieners: From a Journal
Biographical Notes
Afterword
A Short Bibliography
Index (of Authors and Poems)