Postmodern American Poetry

Postmodern American Poetry

Postmodern American Poetry is a 1994 poetry anthology edited by Paul Hoover; it is a Norton anthology published by W. W. Norton and Co.. The introduction identifies the use of postmodern with its early mention by Charles Olson, and identifies the field chosen as experimental poetry from after 1945. The book contains, besides poems, about 20 short essays on poetics.It joined two other collections which appeared at that time: "" (1994; edited by Douglas Messerli) and "American Poetry Since 1950" (1993; edited by Eliot Weinberger).

The anthology, the goal of which is to "fully represent the movements of American avant-garde poetry" includes representatives from the Beat and New York School poets, the Projectivists, "Deep Image" poets, language and performance poetry, and various experimentalists.

In all the anthology consists of 411 poems by 103 poets and essays by 18 authors, including some of the poets who also have poetry in the book.

Poets in "Postmodern American Poetry"

* Charles Olson
* John Cage
* James Laughlin
* Robert Duncan
* Lawrence Ferlinghetti
* Hilda Morley
* Charles Bukowski
* Barbara Guest
* Jackson Mac Low
* Jack Kerouac
* Philip Whalen
* Denise Levertov
* James Schuyler
* Jack Spicer
* Kenneth Koch
* Frank O'Hara
* Allen Ginsberg
* Robert Creeley
* Paul Blackburn
* Larry Eigner
* John Ashbery
* Hannah Weiner
* Kenward Elmslie
* Ed Dorn
* Harry Mathews
* Gregory Corso
* Gary Snyder
* Jerome Rothenberg
* David Antin
* Keith Waldrop
* Michael McClure
* Amiri Baraka
* Diane Di Prima
* Ted Berrigan
* Anselm Hollo
* Joseph Ceravolo
* John Wieners
* Robert Kelly
* Clayton Eshleman
* Rosmarie Waldrop
* Gustaf Sobin
* Russell Edson
* John Giorno
* Jayne Cortez
* Clarence Major
* Diane Wakoski
* Susan Howe
* Kathleen Fraser
* Tony Towle
* Bill Berkson
* Ed Sanders
* Clark Coolidge
* Stephen Rodefer
* Robert Grenier
* Lyn Hejinian
* Miguel Algarin
* Tom Clark
* Charles North
* Ron Padgett
* Ann Lauterbach
* William Corbett
* Tom Mandel
* Michael Palmer
* Ray DiPalma
* Maureen Owen
* Paul Violi
* Michael Davidson
* Marjorie Welish
* Lorenzo Thomas
* Anne Waldman
* Alice Notley
* Bernadette Mayer
* John Godfrey
* Wanda Coleman
* Andrei Codrescu
* Paul Hoover
* Ron Silliman
* Bob Perelman
* Nathaniel Mackey
* David Shapiro
* Rae Armantrout
* Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
* Leslie Scalapino
* Bruce Andrews
* Barrett Watten
* David Lehman
* George Evans
* August Kleinzahler
* Eileen Myles
* Victor Hernandez Cruz
* Jessica Hagedorn
* Charles Bernstein
* John Yau
* Jim Carroll
* Carla Harryman
* Maxine Chernoff
* Art Lange
* Jimmy Santiago Baca
* David Trinidad
* Elaine Equi
* Dennis Cooper
* Amy Gerstler
* Diane Ward
* Michael Giardina

Authors of essays on poetics in the volume

* Charles Olson
* John Cage
* Robert Duncan
* Denise Levertov
* Frank O'Hara
* Allen Ginsberg
* Robert Creeley
* Jerome Rothenberg
* Amiri Baraka
* Susan Howe
* Clark Coolidge
* Lyn Hejinian
* Bernadette Mayer
* Ron Silliman
* Nathaniel Mackey
* Bruce Andrews
* Victor Hernandez Cruz
* Charles Bernstein

Other information

ISBN 0-393-31090-6 (paperback)

ee also

* 1994 in poetry

References

External links

* [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/perloff/anth.html Whose New American Poetry?: Anthologizing in the Nineties]
* [http://creativestudios.com/abstractpoetry.html Experimentations in Abstract Postmodern Poetry]


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