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Postmodern American poetry : a Norton anthology
Title
Postmodern American poetry : a Norton anthology / edited by Paul Hoover.
ISBN
0393310906
9780393310900
0393964507
9780393964509
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [1994]
Copyright Notice Date
©1994
Physical Description
xxxix, 701 pages ; 24 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Za1 994 P8466: Paperbound. Stamped on back cover: Instructor's desk copy. Number line on title page verso indicates 1st printing: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0. From the Paul Violi papers.
BEIN 2018 13714: Number line on title page verso indicates 1st printing: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0. Paperbound. Autograph: Ron Padgett. From the library of Ron Padgett.
Summary
A survey of major poets and movements of American postmodern poetry includes more than four hundred poems by 103 poets.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
In Cold Hell, in Thicket
I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
Letter 3 ("Tansy buttons")
Maximus, to himself
Librarian / Charles Olson (1910-1970)
25 Mesostics Re and Not Re Mark Tobey
Writing through the Cantos / John Cage (1912-1992)
Inn at Kirchstetten
Then and Now / James Laughlin (b. 1914)
Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
Poetry, a Natural Thing
Torso Passages 18
Songs of an Other
Close / Robert Duncan (1919-1988)
[In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see]
[In Golden Gate Park that day]
[Constantly risking absurdity]
I Am Waiting
Monet's Lilies Shuddering
Dark Portrait / Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
Lizard
Curve of the Water
Made Out of Links
For Elaine de Kooning
Parents / Hilda Morley (b. 1919)
crucifix in a deathhand
startled into life like fire
i am dead but i know the dead are not like this
mockingbird
my old man / Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
Red Lilies
River Road Studio
Prairie Houses
Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights
Emphasis Falls on Reality
Twilight Polka Dots / Barbara Guest (b. 1920)
1st Dance
Making Things New
6 February 1964
6th Dance
Doing Things with Pencils
17-18 February 1964
12th Dance
Getting Leather by Language
21 February 1964
Trope Market
59th Light Poem: for La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela
6 November 1982
Antic Quatrains
Twenties 26
Twenties 27 / Jackson Mac Low (b. 1922)
113th Chorus ("Got up and dressed up")
127th Chorus ("Nobody knows the other side")
149th Chorus ("I keep falling in love")
211th Chorus ("The wheel of the quivering meat")
228th Chorus ("Praised be man, he is existing in milk")
Thrashing Doves / Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
Slop Barrel / Philip Whalen (b. 1923)
Overland to the Islands
Illustrious Ancestors
Ache of Marriage
Wings
Stepping Westward
Williams: An Essay
Wavering
Where Is the Angel? / Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
Man in Blue
Crystal Lithium
Letter to a Friend: Who Is Nancy Daum?
Korean Mums / James Schuyler (1923-1991)
I ("Poetry, almost blind like a camera")
II ("God must have a big eye to see everything")
III ("God's other eye is good and gold. So bright")
Morphemics
Phonemics / Jack Spicer (1925-1965)
Permanently
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
Alive for an Instant
Circus
With Janice / Kenneth Koch (b. 1925)
Poem ("The eager note on my door said 'Call me, ")
Poem ("At night Chinamen jump")
Meditations in an Emergency
Ode to Joy
Day Lady Died
Personal Poem
Ave Maria
Steps
Poem ("Lana Turner has collapsed!")
Why I Am Not a Painter / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
I ("I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.")
Supermarket in California
America
I ("Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village.")
To Aunt Rose
First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels
On Neal's Ashes / Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
After Lorca
Form of Women
Flower
Rain
For Love
Language
Window
"I Keep to Myself Such Measures . . ."
World
Self-Portrait
Bresson's Movies
Age / Robert Creeley (b. 1926)
Brooklyn Narcissus
El Camino Verde
Park Poem
Net of Place / Paul Blackburn (1926-1971)
[trees green the quiet sun]
[how it comes about]
open air where
Wholes
[a temporary language] / Larry Eigner (b. 1927)
Picture of Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers
"How Much Longer Will I Be Able to Inhabit the Divine Sepulcher . . ."
Leaving the Atocha Station
I ("These decibels")
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
One Thing That Can Save America
Other Tradition
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
I ("Still in the published city but not yet") / John Ashbery (b. 1927)
3/10 ("How can I describe anything when all these interruptions keep arriving and then")
3/15 ("LOW INCOME")
Fri May 17 ("Whisper Think of Rhys see his image large, behind you, NOT IN LOVE you call") / Hannah Weiner (b. 1928)
Feathered Dancers
Japanese City
Amazon Club
Big Bar / Kenward Elmslie (b. 1929)
Rick of Green Wood
Geranium
From Gloucester Out
Idle Visitation / Ed Dorn (b. 1929)
Sad Birds
Histoire / Harry Mathews (b. 1930)
Mad Yak
Dream of a Baseball Star
I Held a Shelley Manuscript
Marriage
Love Poem for Three for Kaye & Me / Gregory Corso (b. 1930)
Riprap
Bath
Avocado
As for Poets
Axe Handles
Right in the Trail / Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
Cokboy, Part One
Cokboy, Part Two / Jerome Rothenberg (b. 1931)
private occasion in a public place / David Antin (b. 1932)
I ("Balancing, Austere Life-")
Will to Will
Wandering Curves / Keith Waldrop (b. 1932)
Hymn to Saint Geryon
Ode to Jackson Pollock / Michael McClure (b. 1932)
Political Poem
Three Modes of History and Culture
New World
Leadbelly Gives an Autograph
Ka 'Ba
Kenyatta Listening to Mozart
Leroy
Nation Is Like Ourselves
AM/TRAK / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)
Practice of Magical Evocation
On Sitting Down to Write, I Decide Instead to Go to Fred Herko's Concert
For H.D.
Backyard
Loba Addresses the Goddess / or The Poet as Priestess Addresses the Loba-Goddess / Diane Di Prima (b. 1934)
II ("Dear Margie, hello. It is 5:15 a.m.")
XXXVI ("It's 8:54 a.m. in Brooklyn, it's the 28th of July and")
LXXXVIII A Final Sonnet
Words for Love
Bean Spasms / Ted Berrigan (1934-1983)
Journey, 1966
Shed the Fear
Dream of Instant Total Representation
Godlike
Italics
Wild West Workshop Poem / Anselm Hollo (b. 1934)
Ho Ho Ho Caribou
Pregnant, I Come
Geological Hymn
New Realism / Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988)
poem for the insane
Waning of the Harvest Moon
Poem for Trapped Things
My Mother
Two Years Later
Loneliness / John Wieners (b. 1934)
Coming
Rainmakers
[Bittersweet growing up the red wall]
Woman with Flaxen Hair in Norfolk Heard / Robert Kelly (b. 1935)
Lich Gate
Notes on a Visit to Le Tuc d'Audoubert / Clayton Eshleman (b. 1935)
1-14 / Rosmarie Waldrop (b. 1935)
Out of the Identical
What the Music Wants
Eleven Rock Poems / Gustaf Sobin (b. 1935)
Conjugal
Ape
Performance at Hog Theater
Toy-Maker
Optical Prodigal / Russell Edson (b. 1935)
Life Is a Killer
Scum & Slime / John Giorno (b. 1936)
For the Poets (Christopher Okigbo & Henry Dumas)
I See Chano Pozo
Rape / Jayne Cortez (b. 1936)
Swallow the Lake
Isolate
Inside Diameter / Clarence Major (b. 1936)
Blue Monday
Hummingbird Light
For Craig Who Leapt Off a Cliff in to Hummingbird Light / Diane Wakoski (b. 1937)
1-4
White Foolscap: Book of Cordelia / Susan Howe (b. 1937)
re:searches (fragments, after Anakreon, for Emily Dickinson) / Kathleen Fraser (b. 1937)
North
Painting the Eaves
Random (Re-arrangeable) Study for Views / Tony Towle (b. 1939)
Russian New Year
Rebecca Cutlet
Melting Milk / Bill Berkson (b. 1939)
Cutting Prow / Ed Sanders (b. 1939)
Brill
Styro
On Induction of the Hand
Hand Further
Noon Point
Crack
I ("I came here. I don't know you here.") / Clark Coolidge (b. 1939)
Pretext
From Plane Debris
Codex / Stephen Rodefer (b. 1940)
Has Faded in Part but Magnificent Also Late
Crow
Wrath to Sadness
Sunday Morning / Robert Grenier (b. 1941).
Pause, a rose, something on paper
As for we who "love to be astonished"
Like plump birds along the shore
Yet we insist that life is full of happy chance / Lyn Hejinian (b. 1941)
Tato
Reading at the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe
Nudo de claridad
San Francisco / Miguel Algarin (b. 1941)
You (I)
You (III)
"Like musical instruments . . ."
Baseball and Classicism
Suicide with Squirtgun
Society / Tom Clark (b. 1941)
Few Facts about Me
Elizabethan & Nova Scotian Music
Note to Tony Towle (After WS) / Charles North (b. 1941)
Wonderful Things
Nothing in That Drawer
Falling in Love in Spain or Mexico
Big Bluejay Composition
Who and Each / Ron Padgett (b. 1942)
Mimetic
Platonic Subject
Here and There
Glamor
Boy Sleeping / Ann Lauterbach (b. 1942)
Vermont Apollinaire
Wickson Plums
Cold Lunch / William Corbett (b. 1942)
Say Ja
Realism
Jews in Hell / Tom Mandel (b. 1942)
Notes for Echo Lake 3
Notes for Echo Lake 5
Project of Linear Inquiry
Voice and Address
Fifth Prose / Michael Palmer (b. 1943)
[Rumor's rooster]
[Each moment is surrounded]
[A pink maniac]
[Memory's wedge]
Rebus Tact / Ray DiPalma (b. 1943)
All That Glitters ...
for Emily (Dickinson)
African Sunday / Maureen Owen (b. 1943)
Index
Rifacimento
When to Slap a Woman / Paul Violi (b. 1944)
Et in Leucadia Ego
Form of Chiasmus; The Chiasmus of Forms
Thinking the Alps / Michael Davidson (b. 1944)
Respected, Feared, and Somehow Loved
Veil
Within This Book, Called Marguerite
Skin
Crossing Disappearing Behind Them / Marjorie Welish (b. 1944)
Marvelous Land of Indefinitions
Instructions for Your New Osiris / Lorenzo Thomas (b. 1944)
Makeup on Empty Space
Berthe Morisot
skin Meat BONES (chant) / Anne Waldman (b. 1945)
Poem ("You hear that heroic big land music?")
Jack Would Speak through the Imperfect Medium of Alice
California Girlhood
How Spring Comes
From Beginning with a Stain / Alice Notley (b. 1945)
Gay Full Story
Sonnet ("Beauty of songs your absence I should not show")
Sonnet ("A thousand apples you might put in your theories")
Birthday Sonnet for Grace
First turn to me. ... / Bernadette Mayer (b. 1945)
Our Lady
Wings
So Let's Look at It Another Way
Where the Weather Suits My Clothes / John Godfrey (b. 1945)
ISM
Brute Strength
Essay on Language
African Sleeping Sickness / Wanda Coleman (b. 1946)
Work
Against Meaning
Paper on Humor
Circle Jerk
Telyrie / Andrei Codrescu (b. 1946)
Poems We Can Understand
Heart's Ease
Desire / Paul Hoover (b. 1946)
From Tjanting
[A Sentence in the evening.]
[Deep in Genital Soup] / Ron Silliman (b. 1946)
Cliff Notes
Let's Say
Things
Chronic Meanings / Bob Perelman (b. 1947)
Ghede Poem
Shower of Secret Things / Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1947)
Counter-Example
Commentary Text Commentary Text Commentary Text
Realistic Bar and Grill
Tracing of an Evening
Book of Glass / David Shapiro (b. 1947)
Necromance
Language of Love
Attention / Rae Armantrout (b. 1947)
Alakanak Break-Up
Texas
Jealousy / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (b. 1947)
series
3
Flush a play / Leslie Scalapino (b. 1947)
Stalin's Genius
Species Means Guilt
Bomb Then, Bomb Now / Bruce Andrews (b. 1948)
Statistics
Radio
From Progress / Barrett Watten (b. 1948)
Difference Between Pepsi and Coke
Toward the Vanishing Point
First Offense / David Lehman (b. 1948)
Renaissance Drunk
Revelation in the Mother Lode
Horse on a Fence / George Evans (b. 1948)
Autumnal Sketch
Hamburger
Poetics
Spleen
Lunatic of Lindley Meadow
Ebenezer Californicus
Case in Point / August Kleinzahler (b. 1949)
December 9th
New England Wind
Sadness of Leaving / Eileen Myles (b. 1949)
Areyto
Essay on William Carlos Williams
Problems with Hurricanes / Victor Hernandez Cruz (b. 1949)
Latin Music in New York
Something About You / Jessica Hagedorn (b. 1949)
Klupzy Girl
Whose Language
Of Time and the Line
Wait / Charles Bernstein (b. 1950)
Chinese Villanelle
Cenotaph
Engines of Gloom and Affection / John Yau (b. 1950)
Withdrawal Letter
Maybe I'm Amazed
Paregoric Babies / Jim Carroll (b. 1951)
My Story
Realism
Male / Carla Harryman (b. 1952)
Man Struck Twenty Times by Lightning
Lost and Found
Breasts
Amble
Black
How Lies Grow / Maxine Chernoff (b. 1952)
Sonnet for the Season
Perugia / Art Lange (b. 1952)
Voz de la Gente
Mi Tio Baca el Poeta de Socorro
Matanza to Welcome Spring / Jimmy Santiago Baca (b. 1952)
Movin' with Nancy
Double Trouble / David Trinidad (b. 1953)
Bouquet of Objects
Puritans
In a Monotonous Dream
Date with Robbe-Grillet / Elaine Equi (b. 1953)
Being Aware
No God
Drugs / Dennis Cooper (b. 1953)
True Bride
BZZZZZZZ
Bitter Angel
Marriage / Amy Gerstler (b. 1956)
Immediate Content Recognition
Glass House
Lovely Stuff / Diane Ward (b. 1956)
Projective Verse / Charles Olson
From Themes & Variations / John Cage
Equilibrations / Robert Duncan
Some Notes on Organic Form / Denise Levertov
Personism: A Manifesto / Frank O'Hara
Notes for Howl and Other Poems / Allen Ginsberg
To Define
Form / Robert Creeley
New Models, New Visions: Some Notes Toward a Poetics of Performance / Jerome Rothenberg
How You Sound?? / Amiri Baraka
There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to Cover to Crown to Cover / Susan Howe
Words / Clark Coolidge
From The Rejection of Closure / Lyn Hejinian
Obfuscated Poem / Bernadette Mayer
Of Theory, To Practice / Ron Silliman
From Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol / Nathaniel Mackey
I Get Impatient
Method / Bruce Andrews
Mountains in the North: Hispanic Writing in the U.S.A. / Victor Hernandez Cruz
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Genre/Form
American poetry - 20th century.
Poetry
Poetry.
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