Postmodern American poetry : a Norton anthology
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Hoover, Paul, 1946- editor.
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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [1994].
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Table of 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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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [1994].
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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A survey of major poets and movements of American postmodern poetry includes more than four hundred poems by 103 poets.
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Hoover, P. (1994). Postmodern American poetry: a Norton anthology . W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hoover, Paul, 1946-. 1994. Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hoover, Paul, 1946-. Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology W.W. Norton & Company, 1994.
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