The New American Poetry, 1945-1960

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The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 is a seminal collection that introduced the counter-cultural voices reshaping American verse post-World War II. Featuring poets once marginalised in the mainstream press, this anthology includes influential figures such as Olson, Duncan, Ashbery, Ginsberg, Kerouac, and others, capturing the raw energy and innovation defining mid-century American poetry. Edited by Donald Allen, it stands as an invaluable historical and cultural record of the era's avant-garde.
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This collection is ideal for readers, scholars, and students of modern poetry, American literature, and cultural history seeking a foundational understanding of the postwar poetic movement and its lasting impact.

This counter-cultural collection of American verse fits in Robert Lowell's famous definition of the raw in American poetry. Contributors include: Olson; Duncan; Creeley; Guest; Ashbery; Ginsberg; Kerouac; Levertov; O'Hara; Snyder; and Schuyler.

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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, Creely, Guest, Ashbery, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Levertov, O'Hara, Snyder, Schuyler, and others.

Donald Allen's The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 delivered the first taste of these remarkable poets, and the book has since become an invaluable historical and cultural record.

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Publishers Weekly praises the re-release as essential reading for anyone interested in 20th-century American poetry, calling it a nearly full appraisal of the mid-century avant-garde.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520209534

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 July 1999

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Contributors:

Edited by Donald Allen

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 544g

Pages: 479

Collections

Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry

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).