Classroom Guide to Accompany Postmodern American Poetry

Download or read book Classroom Guide to Accompany Postmodern American Poetry written by Paul Hoover and published by R.S. Means Company. This book was released on 1994-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1950 with Charles Olsen, Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology is the first anthology since Donald Allen's groundbreaking collection to fully represent the movements of American avant-garde poetry. Postmodern American Poetry provides a deep and wide selection-411 poems by 103 poets-of the major poets and movements of the late twentieth century. Included are the leading Beat and New York School poets, the Projectivists, and "Deep Image" poets. Included, too, is the rich array of poetry written since 1975-language and performance poetry, the work of African American, Hispanic, Asian American, gay and lesbian, and women experimentalists. In addition, a final section of poetics-with writings by Frank O'Hara, Denise Levertov, Jerome Rothenberg, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Bernstein, among others-provides valuable contexts for reading the poems.