The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 / Edition 1

by Donald Allen

Overview

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 record, now available again for a new generation of readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520209534
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	07/27/1999
Edition description:	First Edition, With a new afterword
Pages:	479
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Donald Allen (1912-2004) was the editor of The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (California, 1995) and coeditor of The Collected Prose of Charles Olson (California, 1997).