Selected Poems
Selected Poems

Author: José Emilio Pacheco

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780811210218

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This is the first major retrospective gathering to appear in an English-Spanish bilingual format of the work of one of Mexico's foremost writers. It is a glittering and giant technical achievement, as brilliant and instantly visible as Hart Crane's The Bridge.

The New American Poetry, 1945-1960
The New American Poetry, 1945-1960

Author: Donald Allen

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 0520354001

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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. As one of the first counter-cultural collections of American verse, this volume fits in Robert Lowell's famous definition of the raw in American poetry. 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.

The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945
The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945

Author: Jennifer Ashton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-02-08

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0521766958

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Explores the ways in which American poetry has documented and sometimes helped propel the literary and cultural revolutions of the past sixty-five years.

Contemporary American Poetry
Contemporary American Poetry

Author: Lloyd M. Davis

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780810818293

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Lists over 5,200 titles of books published by American poets between 1973 and 1983.

Mulligan Stew
Mulligan Stew

Author: Gilbert Sorrentino

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

Published: 2023-07-11

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1628974753

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Widely regarded as Sorrentino's finest achievement, Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to write a "new wave murder mystery," his frustrating emotional and sexual life wreaks havoc on his work-in-progress. As a result, his narrative (the very book we are reading) turns into a literary "stew" an uproariously funny melange of journal entries, erotic poetry, parodies of all kinds, love letters, interviews, and lists—as Hugh Kenner in "Harper's" wrote, "for another such virtuoso of the List you'd have to resurrect Joyce." Soon, Lamont's characters (on loan from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flann O'Brien, James Joyce, and Dashiell Hammet) take on lives of their own, completely sabotaging his narrative. Sorrentino has vastly extended the possibilities of what a novel can be in this extraordinary work, which both parodies and pays homage to the art of fiction.

Under the Shadow
Under the Shadow

Author: Gilbert Sorrentino

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780916583934

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"Under the Shadow"?takes the form of fifty-nine brief sketches with simple nouns as titles. These exquisite vignettes take place on a plane at once surreal, abstract, and ominous, describing a set of people and incidents derived largely from fragments of conversation and gossip gathered here and there. They are reminiscent of Raymond Roussel's characters amid his inimitable ersatz pastorals, with tableaux both innocent and grotesque. There is something ambiguous about these passages, something deliberately closed and dreamlike. Many of them read like primal scenes of private pathologies; others are memories that, many years later, retain their power to haunt.

Splendide-Hôtel
Splendide-Hôtel

Author: Gilbert Sorrentino

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9781564782786

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Arthur Rimbaud's invented "Splendide-Hotel," "built in the chaos of ice and of the polar night," provides the occasion for Sorrentino's imaginative meditation on letters and language. Each chapter serves as an opportunity for the author to expand on thoughts and images suggested by a letter of the alphabet, as well as to reflect upon the workings of the imagination, particularly in the art of William Carlos Williams and Arthur Rimbaud. Reminiscent of the philosophical treatise/poem "On Being Blue" by William H. Glass, "Splendide-Hotel" is a Grand Hotel of the mind, splendidly conceived.