The New American Poetry
by Allen, Donald (editor)
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, 1960. First printing. 454 pp., 5.5 x 8.25 inches. Cloth over boards, in printed dust-jacket. A tight, clean copy, with just a touch of sunning at the top and bottom edges of the cloth, and a couple of minuscule spots on the front edge of the text block. In a bright, unclipped jacket with some fading around the spine, and a few tiny chips and closed edge tears. The cloth issue is scarce, especially so in any sort of jacket; a much nicer copy than usually seen. A previous bookseller's notation on the endsheet gives the provenance as contributor "Richard Duerden's review copy."
The landmark anthology that brought the alternative and underground streams of midcentury American poetry to a wide audience for the first time, and that gave an umbrella name to the myriad postwar manifestations of nonacademic poetry. Allen gathered representative selections from forty-four poets, which he organized into five loose (and later much challenged) geographical groupings: Black Mountain (Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Paul Blackburn, Robert Creeley, Paul Carroll, Larry Eigner, Edward Dorn, Jonathan Williams, Joel Oppenheimer); the San Francisco Renaissance (Helen Adam, Brother Antoninus, James Broughton, Madeline Gleason, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer, Lew Welch, Richard Duerden, Philip Lamantia, Bruce Boyd, Kirby Doyle, Ebbe Borregaard); the Beats (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky); the New York School (Barbara Guest, James Schuyler, Edward Field, Kenneth Koch, Frank OHara, John Ashbery); and a fifth group of younger poets (Philip Whalen, Gilbert Sorrentino, Stuart Z. Perkoff, Gary Snyder, Edward Marshall, Michael McClure, Ray Bremser, LeRoi Jones, John Wieners, Ron Loewinsohn, David Meltzer).
The landmark anthology that brought the alternative and underground streams of midcentury American poetry to a wide audience for the first time, and that gave an umbrella name to the myriad postwar manifestations of nonacademic poetry. Allen gathered representative selections from forty-four poets, which he organized into five loose (and later much challenged) geographical groupings: Black Mountain (Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Paul Blackburn, Robert Creeley, Paul Carroll, Larry Eigner, Edward Dorn, Jonathan Williams, Joel Oppenheimer); the San Francisco Renaissance (Helen Adam, Brother Antoninus, James Broughton, Madeline Gleason, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer, Lew Welch, Richard Duerden, Philip Lamantia, Bruce Boyd, Kirby Doyle, Ebbe Borregaard); the Beats (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky); the New York School (Barbara Guest, James Schuyler, Edward Field, Kenneth Koch, Frank OHara, John Ashbery); and a fifth group of younger poets (Philip Whalen, Gilbert Sorrentino, Stuart Z. Perkoff, Gary Snyder, Edward Marshall, Michael McClure, Ray Bremser, LeRoi Jones, John Wieners, Ron Loewinsohn, David Meltzer).
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- Bookseller
- Passages Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4699
- Title
- The New American Poetry
- Author
- Allen, Donald (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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