The Postmoderns: The New American Poetry Revised (Paperback)

by Donald Allen (Editor), George F. Butterick (Editor) "You shall lament who know they are as tender as the horse is..." (more)
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A Blessing In Disguise by John Ashbery
Decoy by John Ashbery
How Much Longer Will I Be Able To Inhabit The Divine Sepulcher by John Ashbery
The Instruction Manual by John Ashbery
A Last World by John Ashbery
Pyrography by John Ashbery
These Lacustrine Cities by John Ashbery
Wet Casements by John Ashbery
Beautiful Black Women by Amiri Baraka
Black Dada Nihilismus by Amiri Baraka
Crow Jane: Crow Jane In High Society by Amiri Baraka
Crow Jane: Crow Jane The Crook by Amiri Baraka
Crow Jane: Crow Jane's Manner by Amiri Baraka
Crow Jane: For Crow Jane, Mama Death by Amiri Baraka
Crow Jane: The Dead Lady Canonized by Amiri Baraka
Das Kapital by Amiri Baraka
In Memory Of Radio by Amiri Baraka
A Poem For Black Hearts by Amiri Baraka
Preface To A Twenty Volume Suicide Note by Amiri Baraka
17.iv.71 by Paul Blackburn
The Assistance by Paul Blackburn
The Once-over by Paul Blackburn
Phone Call To Rutherford by Paul Blackburn
Sirventes by Paul Blackburn
The Slogan by Paul Blackburn
The Tides by Paul Blackburn
Image-nation (the Poesis) by Robin Francis Blaser
Image-nation (the Telephone) by Robin Francis Blaser
Image-nation 3 by Robin Francis Blaser
Suddenly by Robin Francis Blaser
Birthplace Revisited by Gregory Corso
A Dreamed Realization by Gregory Corso
Hello by Gregory Corso
Poets Hitchhiking On The Highway by Gregory Corso
Spontaneous Requiem For The American Indian by Gregory Corso
Uccello by Gregory Corso
The Door; For Robert Duncan by Robert Creeley
For My Mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley by Robert Creeley
I Know A Man by Robert Creeley
The Immoral Proposition by Robert Creeley
Prayer To Hermes; For Raphael Lopez-pedraza by Robert Creeley
The Whip by Robert Creeley
Goodbye Nkrumah by Diane Di Prima
In Memory Of My First Chapatis by Diane Di Prima
The Jungle by Diane Di Prima
The Practice Of Magical Evocation by Diane Di Prima
The Air Of June Sings by Edward Dorn
Are They Dancing? by Edward Dorn
For The New Union Dead In Alabama by Edward Dorn
From Gloucester Out by Edward Dorn
La Maquina A Houston by Edward Dorn
Los Mineros by Edward Dorn
The Rick Of Green Wood by Edward Dorn
Vaquero by Edward Dorn
Correspondences by Robert Duncan
Dante: Book One, 3 (1) by Robert Duncan
My Mother Would Be A Falconress by Robert Duncan
A New Poem (for Jack Spicer) by Robert Duncan
An Owl Is An Only Bird Of Poetry; A Vale For James Broughton by Robert Duncan
Passages: 10. These Past Years by Robert Duncan
Passages: 8. As In The Old Days by Robert Duncan
A Poem Beginning With A Line By Pindar by Robert Duncan
The Song Of The Borderguard by Robert Duncan
This Place Rumord To Have Been Sodom by Robert Duncan
The Bare Tree %alternate by Larry Eigner
The Dark Swimmers by Larry Eigner
Do It Yrself by Larry Eigner
Don't Go by Larry Eigner
Flake Diamond Of %the Sea by Larry Eigner
From The Sustaining Air by Larry Eigner
I Have Felt It As They've Said by Larry Eigner
Letter For Duncan by Larry Eigner
That The Neighborhood Might Be Covered' by Larry Eigner
The Wind Like An Ocean by Larry Eigner
A Canticle To The Waterbirds by William Everson
Kingfisher Flat by William Everson
The Narrows Of Birth by William Everson
A Coney Island Of The Mind: 1 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Coney Island Of The Mind: 15 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
He (to Allen Ginsberg Of The 1950's, Before 'the Change') by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lost Parents by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Pictures Of The Gone World: 1 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Pictures Of The Gone World: 8 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Pound At Spoleto by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Sea And Ourselves At Cape Ann by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
America by Allen Ginsberg
Howl; For Carl Solomon by Allen Ginsberg
Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg
Kral Majales by Allen Ginsberg
On Neal's Ashes by Allen Ginsberg
A Supermarket In California by Allen Ginsberg
20 by Barbara Guest
The Luminous by Barbara Guest
Parade's End by Barbara Guest
Red Lilies by Barbara Guest
River Road Studio by Barbara Guest
Sante Fe Trail by Barbara Guest
Amazing Grace by Anselm Hollo
Buffalo - Isle Of Wight Power Cable by Anselm Hollo
The Discovery Of Lsd A True Story by Anselm Hollo
Le Jazz Hot by Anselm Hollo
Rain by Anselm Hollo
That Old Sauna High by Anselm Hollo
Wasp Sex Myth (one) by Anselm Hollo
Wasp Sex Myth (two) by Anselm Hollo
The Book Of Persephone: 10 by Robert Kelly
The Book Of Persephone: 11 by Robert Kelly
The Book Of Persephone: 12 by Robert Kelly
The Book Of Persephone: 14 by Robert Kelly
The Book Of Persephone: 16 by Robert Kelly
The Book Of Persephone: 17 by Robert Kelly
The Book Of Persephone: 18 by Robert Kelly
The Book Of Persephone: 9 by Robert Kelly
The Sound by Robert Kelly
How To Meditate by John Kerouac
Mexico City Blues (211th Chorus) by John Kerouac
Mexico City Blues (229th Chorus) by John Kerouac
My Gang by John Kerouac
Pull My Daisy by John Kerouac
The Sea Shroud (a Description Of My Last Cartoon) by John Kerouac
Permanently by Kenneth Koch
Sleeping With Women by Kenneth Koch
Thank You by Kenneth Koch
Variations On A Theme By William Carlos Williams by Kenneth Koch
I Have Cut An Eagle by James Anthony Koller
O Dirty Bird Yr Gizzard's Too Big & Full Of Sand by James Anthony Koller
Some Magic; For Don Allen by James Anthony Koller
The Unreal Song Of The Old by James Anthony Koller
August 18 by Joanne Kyger
Don't Hope To Gain By What Has Preceded; Lincoln's Birthday by Joanne Kyger
I Have No Strength For Mine by Joanne Kyger
My Father Died This Spring' by Joanne Kyger
Of All Things For You To Go Away Mad by Joanne Kyger
The Pigs For Circe In May by Joanne Kyger
When I Was Well Into Being Savored by Joanne Kyger
The Ache Of Marriage by Denise Levertov
Cancion by Denise Levertov
A Common Ground by Denise Levertov
The Goddess by Denise Levertov
The Hands by Denise Levertov
Hypocrite Women by Denise Levertov
The Jacob's Ladder by Denise Levertov
Losing Track by Denise Levertov
Merritt Parkway by Denise Levertov
Overheard by Denise Levertov
Scenes From The Life Of The Peppertrees by Denise Levertov
Song For Ishtar by Denise Levertov
To The Reader by Denise Levertov
The Way Through by Denise Levertov
Against The Silences To Come by Ron Loewinsohn
The Stillness Of The Poem by Ron Loewinsohn
2nd Light Poem: For Diane Wakoski (10 June 1962) by Jackson Maclow
Zen Buddhism & Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis & Zen Buddhism by Jackson Maclow
The Aelf-scin by Michael Thomas Mcclure
Canticle by Michael Thomas Mcclure
Mad Sonnet 1 by Michael Thomas Mcclure
Peyote Poem: Part 1 by Michael Thomas Mcclure
With Tendrils Of Poems by Michael Thomas Mcclure
The Eyes, The Blood by David Meltzer
Answer To Voznesensky & Evtushenko by Frank O'hara
Ave Maria by Frank O'hara
The Day Lady Died by Frank O'hara
Hotel Transylvanie by Frank O'hara
In Memory Of My Feelings; To Grace Hartigan by Frank O'hara
Ode: Salute To The French Negro Poets by Frank O'hara
On Rachmaninoff's Birthday (1) by Frank O'hara
Poem by Frank O'hara
To The Harbormaster by Frank O'hara
Why I Am Not A Painter by Frank O'hara
Across Space And Time by Charles Olson
Celestial Evening, October 1967 by Charles Olson
Cole's Island by Charles Olson
I, Maximus Of Gloucester, To You by Charles Olson
In Cold Hell, In Thicket by Charles Olson
The Kingfishers by Charles Olson
La Preface by Charles Olson
The Lordly And Isolate Satyrs - Look At Them Come In by Charles Olson
Maximus, To Himself by Charles Olson
A Newly Discovered 'homeric' Hymn (for Jane Harrison) by Charles Olson
Father Poem by Joel Oppenheimer
The Innocent Breasts by Joel Oppenheimer
The Love Bit by Joel Oppenheimer
Mother Poem by Joel Oppenheimer
48 Words For A Woman's Dance Song by Jerome Rothenberg
The Others - Hunters In The North - The Cree by Jerome Rothenberg
A Poem In Yellow After Tristan Tzara by Jerome Rothenberg
Poland-1931 'the Wedding' by Jerome Rothenberg
The Structural Study Of Myth by Jerome Rothenberg
The Fugs by Edward Sanders
Holy Was Demeter Walking Th'corn Furrow by Edward Sanders
Pindar's Revenge by Edward Sanders
Buried At Springs by James Schuyler
Crocus Night by James Schuyler
The Crystal Lithium by James Schuyler
'the Elizabethans Called It Dying' by James Schuyler
A Head by James Schuyler
Self-pity Is A Kind Of Lying, Too by James Schuyler
For A Far-out Friend by Gary Snyder
Lmfbr by Gary Snyder
Myths And Texts: Burning: 1. Second Shaman Song by Gary Snyder
Myths And Texts: Burning: 14 by Gary Snyder
Myths And Texts: Burning: 15 by Gary Snyder
Myths And Texts: Burning: 17 by Gary Snyder
Myths And Texts: Burning: 3. Maudgalyayana Saw Hell by Gary Snyder
Myths And Texts: Burning: 4. Maitreya The Future Buddha by Gary Snyder
Myths And Texts: Burning: 5. Jimson Weed by Gary Snyder
Riprap by Gary Snyder
Through The Smoke Hole; For Don Allen by Gary Snyder
What Happened Here Before by Gary Snyder
What You Should Know To Be A Poet by Gary Snyder
A Book Of Music by Jack Spicer
Five Words For Joe Dunn On His 22nd Birthday by Jack Spicer
Four Poems For The St. Louis Sporting News: 1 by Jack Spicer
Four Poems For The St. Louis Sporting News: 2 by Jack Spicer
Four Poems For The St. Louis Sporting News: 3 by Jack Spicer
Four Poems For The St. Louis Sporting News: 4 by Jack Spicer
The Holy Grail: The Book Of Gawain: 1 by Jack Spicer
The Holy Grail: The Book Of Gawain: 2 by Jack Spicer
The Holy Grail: The Book Of Gawain: 3 by Jack Spicer
The Holy Grail: The Book Of Gawain: 4 by Jack Spicer
The Holy Grail: The Book Of Gawain: 5 by Jack Spicer
The Holy Grail: The Book Of Gawain: 6 by Jack Spicer
The Holy Grail: The Book Of Gawain: 7 by Jack Spicer
Lady Tactics by Anne Waldman
Pressure by Anne Waldman
Chicago Poem by Lew Welch
Song Of The Turkeu Buzzard by Lew Welch
Taxi Suite: After Anacreon by Lew Welch
Wobbly Rock; For Gary Synder by Lew Welch
10:x:57, 45 Xyears Since The Fall Of The Ch'ing Dynasty by Philip Whalen
For Kai Synder by Philip Whalen
Further Notice by Philip Whalen
Life In The City. In Memoriam Edward Gibbon by Philip Whalen
Sourdough Mountain Lookout; For Kenneth Rexroth by Philip Whalen
Technicalities For Jack Spicer by Philip Whalen
To The Muse by Philip Whalen
Where Or When by Philip Whalen
An Anniversary Of Death by John Wieners
A Poem For Painters by John Wieners
A Poem For The Insane by John Wieners
A Poem For Trapped Things by John Wieners
Two Years Later by John Wieners
What Happened? by John Wieners
The Adhesive Autopsy Of Walt Whitman by Jonathan Williams
The Bitch-kitty by Jonathan Williams
The Hermit Cackleberry Brown, On Human Vanity by Jonathan Williams
The Honey Lamb by Jonathan Williams
A Little Tumescence by Jonathan Williams
Ovid, Meet A Metamorphodite by Jonathan Williams
A Vulnerary (for Robert Duncan) by Jonathan Williams
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This anthology includes many of the major poets to have emerged and gained preeminence since World War II, and whose writing reflects an entirely new way of looking at and structuring reality. United by their "postmodernist" concerns with spontaneity, "instantism," formal and syntactic flexibility, and the revelation of both the creator and the process through the writing itself, these 38 poets represent very diverse strains of an essential American individualism. Included are many of the poets whose work first gained widespread national attention with the 1960 publication of The New American Poetry: Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Blackburn, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan, and others. Among the poets included here for the first time are Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, Ed Sanders, Jerome Rothenberg, and James Koller. In addition to a new preface by Allen and Butterick, the book provides autobiographical notes of all the poets and listings of their major works.

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• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Grove Press (January 14, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802150357
• ISBN-13: 978-0802150356
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