| Description |
xxxix, 701 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Charles Olson (1910-1970) -- In Cold Hell, in Thicket -- I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You -- Letter 3 ("Tansy buttons") -- Maximus, to himself -- The Librarian -- John Cage (1912-1992) -- 25 Mesostics Re and Not Re Mark Tobey -- Writing through the Cantos -- James Laughlin (b. 1914) -- The Inn at Kirchstetten -- Then and Now -- Robert Duncan (1919-1988) -- A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar -- Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow -- Poetry, a Natural Thing -- The Torso Passages 18 -- Songs of an Other -- Close -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919) -- [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 -- A Dark Portrait -- Hilda Morley (b. 1919) -- The Lizard -- Curve of the Water -- Made Out of Links -- For Elaine de Kooning -- Parents -- Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) -- crucifix in a deathhand -- startled into life like fire |
| Summary |
A survey of major poets and movements of American postmodern poetry includes more than four hundred poems by 103 poets |
| Analysis |
English poetry |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Author |
Hoover, Paul, 1946- editor
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| LC no. |
93022753 |
| ISBN |
0393310906 |
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9780393310900 |
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