The new American poetry, 1945-1960 / edited by Donald Allen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allen, Donald, 1912-2004.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxiii, 456 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1999]

Summary:

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. 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.

Contents:

The Kingfishers / Charles Olson (1910-1970) 2

I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You / Charles Olson (1910-1970) 8

The Songs of Maximus / Charles Olson (1910-1970) 11

Maximus, to himself / Charles Olson (1910-1970) 14

The Death of Europe / Charles Olson (1910-1970) 16

A Newly Discovered 'Homeric' Hymn / Charles Olson (1910-1970) 22

The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs / Charles Olson (1910-1970) 24

As the Dead Prey Upon Us / Charles Olson (1910-1970) 27

Variations Done for Gerald van de Wiele / Charles Olson (1910-1970) 34

The Distances / Charles Olson (1910-1970) 37

The Song of the Borderguard / Robert Duncan (1919-1988) 40

An Owl Is an Only Bird of Poetry / Robert Duncan (1919-1988) 41

This Place Rumord To Have Been Sodom / Robert Duncan (1919-1988) 44

The Dance / Robert Duncan (1919-1988) 46

The Question / Robert Duncan (1919-1988) 48

A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar / Robert Duncan (1919-1988) 49

Food for Fire, Food for Thought / Robert Duncan (1919-1988) 57

Dream Data / Robert Duncan (1919-1988) 58

Beyond the End / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) 60

The Hands / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) 61

Merritt Parkway / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) 61

The Way Through / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) 62

The Third Dimension / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) 63

Scenes from the Life of the Peppertrees / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) 64

The Sharks / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) 66

The Five-Day Rain / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) 66

Pleasure / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) 67

The Goddess / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) 68

The Continuity / Paul Blackburn (1926-1971) 69

The Assistance / Paul Blackburn (1926-1971) 69

Night Song for Two Mystics / Paul Blackburn (1926-1971) 70

The Problem / Paul Blackburn (1926-1971) 72

Sirventes / Paul Blackburn (1926-1971) 72

The Once-over / Paul Blackburn (1926-1971) 75

The Encounter / Paul Blackburn (1926-1971) 76

The Innocence / Robert Creeley (1926) 77

The Kind of Act of / Robert Creeley (1926) 77

The Immoral Proposition / Robert Creeley (1926) 78

A Counterpoint / Robert Creeley (1926) 78

The Warning / Robert Creeley (1926) 78

The Whip / Robert Creeley (1926) 79

A Marriage / Robert Creeley (1926) 79

Ballad of the Despairing Husband / Robert Creeley (1926) 80

If You / Robert Creeley (1926) 81

Just Friends / Robert Creeley (1926) 82

The Three Ladies / Robert Creeley (1926) 83

The Door / Robert Creeley (1926) 83

The Awakening / Robert Creeley (1926) 86

The Way / Robert Creeley (1926) 87

Father / Paul Carroll (1927-1996) 88

A Fete / Larry Eigner (1927-1996) 90

Noise grimaced / Larry Eigner (1927-1996) 90

B / Larry Eigner (1927-1996) 91

Environ s / Larry Eigner (1927-1996) 92

Open / Larry Eigner (1927-1996) 93

A Gone / Larry Eigner (1927-1996) 94

Passages / Larry Eigner (1927-1996) 95

Keep me still, for I do not want to dream / Larry Eigner (1927-1996) 95

Do it yrself / Larry Eigner (1927-1996) 96

The Rick of Green Wood / Edward Dorn (1929) 97

Vaquero / Edward Dorn (1929) 98

The Hide of My Mother / Edward Dorn (1929) 98

Are They Dancing / Edward Dorn (1929) 103

The Air of June Sings / Edward Dorn (1929) 104

When the Fairies / Edward Dorn (1929) 105

A Little Tumescence / Jonathan Williams (1929) 107

The Switch Blade (or, John's Other Wife) / Jonathan Williams (1929) 107

Those Troublesome Disguises / Jonathan Williams (1929) 108

The Distances to the Friend / Jonathan Williams (1929) 108

Fast Ball / Jonathan Williams (1929) 109

The Bath / Joel Oppenheimer (1930-1988) 110

The Bus Trip / Joel Oppenheimer (1930-1988) 110

The Feeding / Joel Oppenheimer (1930-1988) 111

Mare Nostrum / Joel Oppenheimer (1930-1988) 111

Blue Funk / Joel Oppenheimer (1930-1988) 112

I Love My Love / Helen Adam (1909-1992) 114

Advent / Brother Antoninus (1912-1994) 118

A Canticle to the Waterbirds / Brother Antoninus (1912-1994) 118

The South Coast / Brother Antoninus (1912-1994) 121

Feathers or Lead? / James Broughton (1913) 123

Once and Upon / Madeline Gleason (1903-1979) 125

Pictures of the Gone World / Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919) 128

A Coney Island of the Mind / Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919) 130

HE / Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919) 134

Poem by the Charles River / Robin Blaser (1925) 138

A 4 Part Geometry Lesson / Robin Blaser (1925) 138

Poem / Robin Blaser (1925) 139

Herons / Robin Blaser (1925) 140

Poem / Robin Blaser (1925) 141

Imaginary Elegies, I-IV / Jack Spicer (1925-1965) 142

Chicago Poem / Lew Welch (1926-1972) 148

After Anacreon / Lew Welch (1926-1972) 150

Musica no. 3 / Richard Duerden (1927) 151

Dance with Banderillas / Richard Duerden (1927) 152

Moon Is to Blood / Richard Duerden (1927) 152

Terror Conduction / Philip Lamantia (1927) 154

"Man is in pain" / Philip Lamantia (1927) 155

Morning Light Song / Philip Lamantia (1927) 156

Still Poem 9 / Philip Lamantia (1927) 157

This Is What the Watchbird Sings, Who Perches in the Lovetree / Bruce Boyd (1928) 158

Sanctuary / Bruce Boyd (1928) 158

Venice Recalled / Bruce Boyd (1928) 159

Strange / Kirby Doyle (1932) 161

Some Stories of the Beauty Wapiti / Ebbe Borregaard (1933) 163

"Each Found Himself at the End of ..." / Ebbe Borregaard (1933) 165

Mexico City Blues: 12 Choruses / Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) 168

The Shrouded Stranger / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) 178

Malest Cornifici Tuo Catullo / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) 179

Sunflower Sutra / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) 179

A Supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) 181

Howl, Parts I and II / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) 182

Sather Gate Illumination / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) 190

Message / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) 194

Kaddish, Parts I, III, IV, V / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) 194

Birthplace Revisited / Gregory Corso (1930) 202

Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway / Gregory Corso (1930) 202

Zizi's Lament / Gregory Corso (1930) 203

Uccello / Gregory Corso (1930) 204

But I Do Not Need Kindness / Gregory Corso (1930) 205

Dialogue

2 Dollmakers / Gregory Corso (1930) 206

Paranoia in Crete / Gregory Corso (1930) 207

A Dreamed Realization / Gregory Corso (1930) 208

From Another Room / Gregory Corso (1930) 208

Notes After Blacking Out / Gregory Corso (1930) 208

Marriage / Gregory Corso (1930) 209

Second Poem / Peter Orlovsky (1933) 213

Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher / Barbara Guest (1923) 216

Sunday Evening / Barbara Guest (1923) 216

Santa Fe Trail / Barbara Guest (1923) 217

Piazzas / Barbara Guest (1923) 218

Salute / James Schuyler (1923-1991) 220

February / James Schuyler (1923-1991) 220

"The Elizabethans Called It Dying" / James Schuyler (1923-1991) 222

Freely Espousing / James Schuyler (1923-1991) 223

A View of Jersey / Edward Field (1924) 225

The Floor Is Dirty / Edward Field (1924) 227

Mending Sump / Kenneth Koch (1925) 229

Fresh Air / Kenneth Koch (1925) 229

Thank You / Kenneth Koch (1925) 236

Chez Jane / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) 239

For James Dean / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) 239

Ode / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) 242

Why I Am Not a Painter / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) 243

In Memory of My Feelings / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) 244

Ode to Joy / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) 250

To Hell with It / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) 251

Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) 253

Ode to Michael Goldberg ('s Birth and Other Births) / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) 254

The Day Lady Died / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) 264

You Are Gorgeous and I'm Coming / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) 265

Poem / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) 266

Poem / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) 267

In Favor of One's Time / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) 268

Hotel Transylvanie / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) 269

A Boy / John Ashbery (1927) 271

The Instruction Manual / John Ashbery (1927) 272

"How Much Longer Will I Be Able To Inhabit the Divine Sepulcher ..." / John Ashbery (1927) 275

Martyrdom of Two Pagans / Philip Whalen (1923) 280

2 Variations: All About Love / Philip Whalen (1923) 281

Sourdough Mountain Lookout / Philip Whalen (1923) 284

Denunciation: or, Unfrock'd Again / Philip Whalen (1923) 289

The Same Old Jazz / Philip Whalen (1923) 290

Forty-five Years Since the Fall of the Ch'ing Dynasty / Philip Whalen (1923) 292

For C / Philip Whalen (1923) 293

Take I, 4:II:58 / Philip Whalen (1923) 294

A Classic Case / Gilbert Sorrentino (1929) 296

The Zoo / Gilbert Sorrentino (1929) 297

Flowers for Luis Bunuel / Stuart Z. Perkoff (1930-1974) 298

The Recluses / Stuart Z. Perkoff (1930-1974) 299

Feasts of Death, Feasts of Love / Stuart Z. Perkoff (1930-1974) 300

Praise for Sick Women / Gary Snyder (1930) 307

Riprap / Gary Snyder (1930) 308

For a Far-out Friend / Gary Snyder (1930) 309

This Tokyo / Gary Snyder (1930) 310

Myths & Texts, Part III: Burning / Gary Snyder (1930) 312

Leave the Word Alone / Edward Marshall (1932) 323

The Breech / Michael McClure (1932) 334

The Rug / Michael McClure (1932) 335

Hymn to St. Geryon, I / Michael McClure (1932) 335

Canticle / Michael McClure (1932) 339

Peyote Poem, Part I / Michael McClure (1932) 339

Ode for Soft Voice / Michael McClure (1932) 343

For Artaud / Michael McClure (1932) 344

The Flowers of Politics, I / Michael McClure (1932) 349

The Flowers of Politics, II / Michael McClure (1932) 350

Poem of Holy Madness, Part IV / Ray Bremser (1934) 352

Blood / Ray Bremser (1934) 356

In Memory of Radio / LeRoi Jones (1934) 357

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note / LeRoi Jones (1934) 358

Way Out West / LeRoi Jones (1934) 358

One Night Stand / LeRoi Jones (1934) 360

To a Publisher ... cut-out / LeRoi Jones (1934) 361

Ostriches & Grandmothers! / LeRoi Jones (1934) 363

The Turncoat / LeRoi Jones (1934) 364

A poem for painters / John Wieners (1934) 365

A poem for the old man / John Wieners (1934) 369

A poem for museum goers / John Wieners (1934) 371

A poem for the insane / John Wieners (1934) 373

A poem for trapped things / John Wieners (1934) 375

Pastoral / Ron Loewinsohn (1937) 376

Insomniac Poem / Ron Loewinsohn (1937) 376

The Thing Made Real / Ron Loewinsohn (1937) 378

The Stillness of the Poem / Ron Loewinsohn (1937) 378

Mrs. Loewinsohn &c / Ron Loewinsohn (1937) 379

My Sons / Ron Loewinsohn (1937) 381

Revelation / David Meltzer (1937) 382

12th Raga / for John Wieners / David Meltzer (1937) 382

15th Raga / for Bela Lugosi / David Meltzer (1937) 383

Prayerwheel / 2 / David Meltzer (1937) 383

VI. Statements on Poetics

Charles Olson: Projective Verse 386

Letter to Elaine Feinstein 397

Robert Duncan: Pages from a Notebook 400

Robert Creeley: To Define 408

Olson & Others: Some Orts for the Sports 408

Denise Levertov 411

Lawrence Ferlinghetti 412

Jack Spicer: Letter to Lorca 413

Jack Kerouac 414

Allen Ginsberg: Notes for Howl and Other Poems 414

James Schuyler: Poet and Painter Overture 418

Frank O'Hara 419

Philip Whalen 420

Gary Snyder 420

Michael McClure: From a Journal 421

LeRoi Jones: "How You Sound??" 424

John Wieners: From a Journal 425.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-452) and index.

Previously published: New York : Grove Press, c1960.

ISBN:

0520209532

OCLC:

40298280