The New American Poetry, 1945-1960

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ISBN: 9780520209534 | 0520209532
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Copyright: 7/1/1999

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The New American Poetry is one of the most influential anthologies of Amermerican Poetry--grandchildren who areican Poetry published since World War II. It was the first counter-cultural anthology; our magisterial Poems for the Millennium (and Norton's Anthology of Postmodern Poetry) are the grandchildren of New A funky but canonical, which is a testament to the cultural capital of the granddaddy of visionary anthologists, Donald Allen.

Preface	p. xi

The Kingfishers	p. 2
I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You	p. 8
The Songs of Maximus	p. 11
Maximus, to himself	p. 14
The Death of Europe	p. 16
A Newly Discovered 'Homeric' Hymn	p. 22
The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs	p. 24
As the Dead Prey Upon Us	p. 27
Variations Done for Gerald van de Wiele	p. 34
The Distances	p. 37
The Song of the Borderguard	p. 40
An Owl Is an Only Bird of Poetry	p. 41
This Place Rumord To Have Been Sodom	p. 44
The Dance	p. 46
The Question	p. 48
A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar	p. 49
Food for Fire, Food for Thought	p. 57
Dream Data	p. 58
Beyond the End	p. 60
The Hands	p. 61
Merritt Parkway	p. 61
The Way Through	p. 62
The Third Dimension	p. 63
Scenes from the Life of the Peppertrees	p. 64
The Sharks	p. 66
The Five-Day Rain	p. 66
Pleasure	p. 67
The Goddess	p. 68
The Continuity	p. 69
The Assistance	p. 69
Night Song for Two Mystics	p. 70
The Problem	p. 72
Sirventes	p. 72
The Once-over	p. 75
The Encounter	p. 76
The Innocence	p. 77
The Kind of Act of	p. 77
The Immoral Proposition	p. 78
A Counterpoint	p. 78
The Warning	p. 78
The Whip	p. 79
A Marriage	p. 79
Ballad of the Despairing Husband	p. 80
If You	p. 81
Just Friends	p. 82
The Three Ladies	p. 83
The Door	p. 83
The Awakening	p. 86
The Way	p. 87
Father	p. 88
A Fete	p. 90
Noise grimaced	p. 90
B	p. 91
Environ s	p. 92
Open	p. 93
A Gone	p. 94
Passages	p. 95
Keep me still, for I do not want to dream	p. 95
Do it yrself	p. 96
The Rick of Green Wood	p. 97
Vaquero	p. 98
The Hide of My Mother	p. 98
Are They Dancing	p. 103
The Air of June Sings	p. 104
When the Fairies	p. 105
A Little Tumescence	p. 107
The Switch Blade (or, John's Other Wife)	p. 107
Those Troublesome Disguises	p. 108
The Distances to the Friend	p. 108
Fast Ball	p. 109
The Bath	p. 110
The Bus Trip	p. 110
The Feeding	p. 111
Mare Nostrum	p. 111
Blue Funk	p. 112

I Love My Love	p. 114
Advent	p. 118
A Canticle to the Waterbirds	p. 118
The South Coast	p. 121
Feathers or Lead?	p. 123
Once and Upon	p. 125
Pictures of the Gone World	p. 128
A Coney Island of the Mind	p. 130
HE	p. 134
Poem by the Charles River	p. 138
A 4 Part Geometry Lesson	p. 138
Poem	p. 139
Herons	p. 140
Poem	p. 141
Imaginary Elegies, I-IV	p. 142
Chicago Poem	p. 148
After Anacreon	p. 150
Musica no. 3	p. 151
Dance with Banderillas	p. 152
Moon Is to Blood	p. 152
Terror Conduction	p. 154
"Man is in pain"	p. 155
Morning Light Song	p. 156
Still Poem 9	p. 157
This Is What the Watchbird Sings, Who Perches in the Lovetree	p. 158
Sanctuary	p. 158
Venice Recalled	p. 159
Strange	p. 161
Some Stories of the Beauty Wapiti	p. 163
"Each Found Himself at the End of ..."	p. 165

Mexico City Blues: 12 Choruses	p. 168
The Shrouded Stranger	p. 178
Malest Cornifici Tuo Catullo	p. 179
Sunflower Sutra	p. 179
A Supermarket in California	p. 181
Howl, Parts I and II	p. 182
Sather Gate Illumination	p. 190
Message	p. 194
Kaddish, Parts I, III, IV, V	p. 194
Birthplace Revisited	p. 202
Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway	p. 202
Zizi's Lament	p. 203
Uccello	p. 204
But I Do Not Need Kindness	p. 205
Dialogue -- 2 Dollmakers	p. 206
Paranoia in Crete	p. 207
A Dreamed Realization	p. 208
From Another Room	p. 208
Notes After Blacking Out	p. 208
Marriage	p. 209
Second Poem	p. 213

Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher	p. 216
Sunday Evening	p. 216
Santa Fe Trail	p. 217
Piazzas	p. 218
Salute	p. 220
February	p. 220
"The Elizabethans Called It Dying"	p. 222
Freely Espousing	p. 223
A View of Jersey	p. 225
The Floor Is Dirty	p. 227
Mending Sump	p. 229
Fresh Air	p. 229
Thank You	p. 236
Chez Jane	p. 239
For James Dean	p. 239
Ode	p. 242
Why I Am Not a Painter	p. 243
In Memory of My Feelings	p. 244
Ode to Joy	p. 250
To Hell with It	p. 251
Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets	p. 253
Ode to Michael Goldberg ('s Birth and Other Births)	p. 254
The Day Lady Died	p. 264
You Are Gorgeous and I'm Coming	p. 265
Poem	p. 266
Poem	p. 267
In Favor of One's Time	p. 268
Hotel Transylvanie	p. 269
A Boy	p. 271
The Instruction Manual	p. 272
"How Much Longer Will I Be Able To Inhabit the Divine Sepulcher ..."	p. 275

Martyrdom of Two Pagans	p. 280
2 Variations: All About Love	p. 281
Sourdough Mountain Lookout	p. 284
Denunciation: or, Unfrock'd Again	p. 289
The Same Old Jazz	p. 290
Forty-five Years Since the Fall of the Ch'ing Dynasty	p. 292
For C	p. 293
Take I, 4:II:58	p. 294
A Classic Case	p. 296
The Zoo	p. 297
Flowers for Luis Bunuel	p. 298
The Recluses	p. 299
Feasts of Death, Feasts of Love	p. 300
Praise for Sick Women	p. 307
Riprap	p. 308
For a Far-out Friend	p. 309
This Tokyo	p. 310
Myths and Texts, Part III: Burning	p. 312
Leave the Word Alone	p. 323
The Breech	p. 334
The Rug	p. 335
Hymn to St. Geryon, I	p. 335
Canticle	p. 339
Peyote Poem, Part I	p. 339
Ode for Soft Voice	p. 343
For Artaud	p. 344
The Flowers of Politics, I	p. 349
The Flowers of Politics, II	p. 350
Poem of Holy Madness, Part IV	p. 352
Blood	p. 356
In Memory of Radio	p. 357
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note	p. 358
Way Out West	p. 358
One Night Stand	p. 360
To a Publisher ... cut-out	p. 361
Ostriches and Grandmothers!	p. 363
The Turncoat	p. 364
A poem for painters	p. 365
A poem for the old man	p. 369
A poem for museum goers	p. 371
A poem for the insane	p. 373
A poem for trapped things	p. 375
Pastoral	p. 376
Insomniac Poem	p. 376
The Thing Made Real	p. 378
The Stillness of the Poem	p. 378
Mrs. Loewinsohn andc	p. 379
My Sons	p. 381
Revelation	p. 382
12th Raga / for John Wieners	p. 382
15th Raga / for Bela Lugosi	p. 383
Prayerwheel / 2	p. 383
Statements on Poetics
Charles Olson: Projective Verse	p. 386
Letter to Elaine Feinstein	p. 397
Robert Duncan: Pages from a Notebook	p. 400
Robert Creeley: To Define	p. 408
Olson and Others: Some Orts for the Sports	p. 408
Denise Levertov	p. 411
Lawrence Ferlinghetti	p. 412
Jack Spicer: Letter to Lorca	p. 413
Jack Kerouac	p. 414
Allen Ginsberg: Notes for Howl and Other Poems	p. 414
James Schuyler: Poet and Painter Overture	p. 418
Frank O'Hara	p. 419
Philip Whalen	p. 420
Gary Snyder	p. 420
Michael McClure: From a Journal	p. 421
LeRoi Jones: "How You Sound??"	p. 424
John Wieners: From a Journal	p. 425
Biographical Notes	p. 427
Afterword	p. 447
A Short Bibliography	p. 451
Index (of Authors and Poems)	p. 453
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