Postmodern American poetry : a Norton anthology

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Title:

Postmodern American poetry : a Norton anthology

ISBN:

9780393341867

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2013.

Physical Description:

lvii, 982 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Charles Olson (1910-1970) -- John Cage (1912-1992) -- Robert Duncan (1919-1988) -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919) -- Barbara Guest (1920-2006) -- Jackson Mac Low (1922-2004) -- Philip Whalen (1923-2002) -- Denise Levertov (1923-1997) -- James Schuyler (1923-1991) -- Kenneth Koch (1925-2002) -- Jack Spicer (1925-1965) -- Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) -- Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) -- Robert Creeley (1926-2005) ---Paul Blackburn (1926-1971) -- John Ashbery (b. 1927) -- Larry Eigner (1927-1996) -- Kenward Elmslie (b. 1929) -- Ed Dorn (1929-1999) -- Gregory Corso (1930-2001) -- Gary Snyder (b. 1930) -- Keith Waldrop (b. 1932) -- Michael McClure (b. 1932) -- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934) -- Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) -- Diane di Prima (b. 1934) -- Clayton Eshleman (b. 1935) -- Ronald Johnson (1935-1998) -- Gustaf Sobin (1935-2005) -- Rosemarie Waldrop (b. 1935) -- Kathleen Fraser (b. 1937) -- Susan Howe (b. 1937) -- Caroline Knox (b. 1938) -- Bill Berkson (b. 1939) -- Clark Coolidge (b. 1939) -- Ed Roberson (b. 1939) -- Fanny Howe (b. 1940) -- Lyn Hejinian (b. 1941) -- Joan Retallack (b. 1941) -- Ron Padgett (b. 1942) -- Ann Lauterbach (b. 1942) -- Michael Palmer (b. 1943) -- Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010) -- Marjorie Welish (b. 1944) -- Norma Cole (b. 1945) -- Bernadette Mayer (b. 1945) -- Alice Notley (b. 1945) -- Anne Waldman (b. 1945) -- Wanda Coleman (b. 1946) -- Ron Silliman (b. 1946) -- Rae Armantrout (b. 1947) -- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (b. 1947) -- Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1947) -- Steve McCaffery (b. 1947) -- Bob Perelman (b. 1947) -- Bin Ramke (b. 1947) -- Aaron Shurin (b. 1947) -- Will Alexander (b. 1948) -- Bruce Andrew (b. 1948) -- Stephen Ratcliffe (b. 1948) -- Eileen Myles (b. 1949) -- C.D. Wright (b. 1949) -- Charles Bernstein (b. 1950) -- Cecil S. Giscombe (b. 1950) -- John Yau (b. 1950) -- Maxine Chernoff (b. 1952) -- Carla Harryman (b. 1952) -- Laura Moriarty (b. 1952) -- Elaine Equi (b. 1953) -- Harryette Mullen (b. 1953) -- Donald Revell (b. 1954) -- Gillian Conoley (b. 1955) -- Andrew Joron (b. 1955) -- Cole Swensen (b. 1955) -- Susan Wheeler (b. 1955) -- Forrest Gander (b. 1956) -- Rusty Morrison (b. 1956) -- Myung Mi Kim (b. 1957) -- Wang Ping (b. 1957) -- Tan Lin (b. 1957) -- Laura Mullen (b. 1958) -- Robert Fitterman (b. 1959) -- Peter Gizzi (b. 1959) -- Claudia Keelan (b. 1959) -- Joseph Lease (b. 1960) -- Mark McMorris (b. 1960) -- Sharon Mesmer (b. 1960) -- Kenneth Goldsmith (b. 1961) -- Elizabeth Robinson (b. 1961) -- Elizabeth Willis (b. 1961) -- Stacy Doris (1962-2012) -- K. Silem Mohammad (b. 1962) -- Linh Dinh (b. 1963) -- Claudia Rankine (b. 1963) -- Nada Gordon (b. 1964) and Gary Sullivan (b. 1962) -- Jennifer Moxley (b. 1964) -- Eleni Sikelianos (b. 1965) -- Edwin Torres (b. 1965) -- Christian Bök (b. 1966) -- Laynie Browne (b. 1966) -- Julie Carr (b. 1966) -- Lisa Jarnot (b. 1967) -- Drew Gardner (b. 1968) -- Vanessa Place (b. 1968) -- G.C. Waldrep (b. 1968) -- Craig Dworkin (b. 1969) -- Brian Kim Stefans (b. 1969) -- Catherine Wagner (b. 1969) -- Graham Foust (b. 1970) -- Noelle Kocot (b. 1970) -- Katie Degentesh (b. 1974) -- Noah Eli Gordon (b. 1975) -- Joshua Marie Wilkinson (b. 1977) -- Ben Lerner (b. 1979) -- Poetics. Charles Olson ; Barbara Guest ; Frank O'Hara ; Allen Ginsberg ; Robert Creeley ; Susan Howe ; Fanny Howe ; Lyn Hejinian ; Will Alexander ; Leslie Scalapino ; Nathaniel Mackey ; Steve McCaffrey ; Charles Bernstein ; K. Silem Mohammad ; Kenneth Goldsmith ; Drew Gardner.

Subject Term:

American poetry -- 20th century.

American poetry -- 21st century.

Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.

Added Author:

Hoover, Paul, 1946-

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A new edition of this groundbreaking anthology revisits postmodernism as a twenty-first-century movement.

Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology galvanized attention on its publication in 1994, making "the avant-garde accessible" ( Chicago Tribune ) and filling "an enormous gap in the publication annals of contemporary poetry" (Marjorie Perloff). Now, two decades later, Paul Hoover returns to suggest what postmodernism means in the twenty-first century. This revised and expanded edition features 114 poets, 557 poems, and 15 poetics essays, addressing important recent movements such as Newlipo, conceptual poetry, and Flarf. Bringing together foundational postmodern poets like Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, and Allen Ginsberg with new voices like Christian Bok, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Katie Degentesh, this edition of Postmodern American Poetry is the essential collection for a new generation of readers.

Author Notes

Paul Hoover is a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University and coeditor of the literary magazine New American Writing . He has published nine books of poetry and a novel.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Hoover, a highly regarded West Coast poet and deep practitioner of the poetics that are the focus of this book, has greatly expanded this important anthology for its second edition. First coined by the poet Charles Olsen in 1951, the term "postmodern" is defined by Hoover in his introduction as "an experimental approach to composition, as well as a worldview that sets itself apart from mainstream culture and the sentimentality and self-expressiveness of its life in writing." That definition suggests both academic and theoretical nature of much of the poetry contained herein, as well as the many unusual formal devices often employed. But the range here is stunning, from Olsen's panoramic histories to Frank O'Hara's chatty cityscapes to Lyn Hejinian's bottomless autobiography. What makes this edition so welcome, for both classroom and personal use, is its inclusion of many newer poets whose careers hadn't yet begun when the first edition was published. Now we have K. Silem Mohammad's Internet-infused lines, Claudia Rankine's moral collages, Christian Bok's vowel experiments, and more, including very new writers like Ben Lerner. There's plenty of everything-especially strong emotion-if one knows where to look. This will be an essential book for students and serious fans of poetry. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

When Hoover's first anthology of postmodern American poetry appeared in 1994, it established invaluable parameters for post-1950 avant-garde works in 675 pages. The second edition fills 976, an indication of the fervor with which poets have responded to the enormous waves of change delivered by the intervening two decades, particularly the digital revolution. Hoover's expert introduction tracks all the stages and facets of postmodern poetry, including such modes as conceptual poetry, cyberpoetry, and proceduralism, which often involve appropriation and cybersampling. He has also included 16 essays that articulate postmodern poetics. The 114 poets (each succinctly and informatively introduced) and their 557 poems are arranged chronologically. The well-chosen selections range exhilaratingly from Denise Levertov's intense lyricism and John Ashbery's delight in artifice to sampling poet Eleni Sikelianos, collagist Lisa Jarnot, and proceduralist Noah Eli Gordon, who created The Source by culling . . . bits of language from page 26 in nearly 10,000 books in the Denver Public Library. Each approach, mechanical or intuitive, yields poems of provocation, mystery, wit, even beauty, adding up to an engrossing and defining collection.--Seaman, Donna Copyright 2010 Booklist

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