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  • Series: Norton Anthology
  • Paperback: 1040 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 2 edition (March 18, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0393341860
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393341867
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.7 x 9.2 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsone of the must-have anthologies
By adead_poet@hotmail.com on June 21, 2001
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For anyone interested in postmodern poetry or for those who want to learn what postmodern poetry is, this is the anthology to have. It's loaded with some of the best poets: the gifted Robert Duncan, Ferlinghettis (one of the best of the beat poets), Bukowski (my first intro to him, and not a dissapointment), Levertov, Kenneth Koch (not his best poems, but still a good selection), the wonderful poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ginsberg, Robert Creely (and excellent selection), a selection from Ashbery so huge that i almost forgot i wasn't reading one of his books, the awesome Gary Snyder, Rothernberg's "Cokboy", Dave Trinidad, Paul Hoover, Wanda Coleman, Charles Olson, Kerouac, Philip Whalen, Corso, Amiri Baraka, Diane di Prima, Anne Waldman, and many others, including a very strong Chicago appearance towards the end.
The anthology starts with an essay by Hoover, which helps to clear up many questions about what postmodern poetry is and what many of the schools are. He concludes the anthology with a selection of essays on poetry.
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5.0 out of 5 starsPretty strong over all
By M. Noack on April 18, 2013
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I basically would like to comment on the two previous reviews, as this is a specifically oriented anthology - toward modern/postmodern poetry - & does a great job as such. Obviously, with any anthology, personal taste will impact ones own judgement, but the anthology is two broad for everything to appeal to every(any?)one. The selections are strong, generally & the book is nearly 1000 pages. There is only so much space available to the editor, & one can hardly compile a "postmodern" anthology today & ignore FLARF, conceptual poetry etc. Some things need to be cut, & to his credit, Hoover cut himself. The jury is still out on the staying power of the FLARF & conceptual selection (though I think the "LANGUAGE" selections are well established & will hold up) but Hover can hardly pretend, in an honest anthology that these trends, for lack of a better word, don't exist. Harry Mathews would be nice, as nearly the only (possibly the only?) American member of the OUILOPO group, but it could be argued that his best writing is in his novels. Isn't it nice that Hoover has made so many updates that it is well worthwhile to own both books?
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5.0 out of 5 starsTerrific
By Mark Statman on March 21, 2015
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Hoover has done a terrific job bringing together some of the most important voices in American poetry of the past few decades. A fine poet and translator, he shows great acumen as an anthologist. I have lent this to many a college student who then decides he or she must own his or her own. Which is the point. Anthologies are not easy to assemble. This one, demanding, challenging, is wonderful.
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5.0 out of 5 starsPoetry You May Have Missed
By The Nibbler on December 7, 2015
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Well the Nibbler is old enough to have heard about the Beat Poets, but too young to have studied them. This book is well organized and gives a brief biographical sketch of each of the poets whose works are collected here. Postmodern American poetry is not for the faint of heart. It is often explicit, lacks rhyme, and meter and at first reading, it may leave you gasping. Stick with the book, read the poems a few times and out loud at least once. It is amazing, it doesn't lack reason after all. You are sure to find a favorite. You are also sure to find some that leave you cold. Maybe you will even begin to look forward to the poetry each week in the New Yorker.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMust have for any library of literature
By X. Suzi on February 5, 2014
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This is a second edition of Hoover's now-ought-to-be-seminal anthology. Anyone who has a personal library that includes modern literary aspects needs to consider this work as a foundation element
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2.0 out of 5 starsthe 1994 anthology is preferable
By KenToomey on March 13, 2013
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In spite of being quite a bit longer than the first edition, the second edition drops a number of important poets, including Harry Mathews, Robert Kelly, Clarence Major...The additional material, for instance on Flarf and conceptualism, isn't unwelcome, but it oughtn't to have come at the cost of poets like Mathews, Kelly, Major, et. al. Get the 1994 edition.
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5.0 out of 5 starsCritique of Postmodern American Poetry
By Joseph E. Tetro on April 30, 2011
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First off, I was delighted to see a blurb on the back by my favorite poet critic Sven Birketts. In and off itself, his willingness to say "...the first antology to capture the scope of the underlying event" meant a lot to me. And the book surely does that (111 poems by 103 poets) along with a 14 page intro that explains and defines Postmodern in terms of it's incipience and in terms of its classification among other genres of poetry, stressing more than anything else its use of every day speech patterns and an overall veering away from from formalism of anykind. I see it as a one of a kind book, and felt I'd gotten exactly what I'd paid for, which was a used copy that arrived in excellent shape from one of Amazon's sellers.Forces in Modern and Postmodern Poetry (Studies in Modern Poetry)
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5.0 out of 5 starsPostmodern
By Maxine Chernoff on June 28, 2013
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What a generous & varied offering . I will use it to teach in fall. Many old favorites and fine new writers.
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Published 10 months ago by BethJean
1.0 out of 5 starsCage is incredibly boring, and his derivative poetry was scarcely...

The New American Poetry movement ceased to be avant garde in 1965. A lot of the poetry in Hoover's book is 2nd rate. Read more

Published 13 months ago by Julia Stein
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What is there to say? The book came in excellent condition. Five stars.

Published 13 months ago by Takai
5.0 out of 5 starsThis is not Ed Norton!

Scintillating collection of poetry!

Published 14 months ago by hank the crank
1.0 out of 5 starsSub-Average

I agree with "poetry lover," -- "Any anthology that drops poets like Jayne Cortez, Charles North, Paul Violi, Anselm Hollow and so many more worthy poets should be avoided. Read more

Published on June 27, 2013 by Ian Powys
3.0 out of 5 starsmediocre, at best

This anthology is seriously flawed;
it lacks a sufficient number of female poets.
I found this anthology boring; I plan to give away
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Published on May 27, 2013 by Burt kolinsky
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Here's a list some of the people who would make it into my edition. Joanne Kyger, Alan Bernheimer, p. Read more

Published on May 11, 2013 by T. Atkins
1.0 out of 5 stars"Mediocrity has its Revenge in this Edition"

The first edition of this anthology was refreshing, and established a new lineage in American poetry. Read more

Published on April 26, 2013 by Spencer

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