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  <title><![CDATA[The New American Poetry, 1945-1960]]></title>
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  <default_description>With more than 100,000 copies sold, &lt;i&gt;The New American Poetry&lt;/i&gt; 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 &lt;i&gt;The New American Poetry&lt;/i&gt; 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.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Donald Merriam Allen]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[For me, this is where my reading &amp; writing of poetry began. It's not just the poets represented here (Olson, Blackburn, Creeley, Duncan, Spicer, etc.), but the poems selected, which, frankly, seems to be a lost art. There have been numerous anthologies published since, some with even more impressive...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6884400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A little bit of this may go a long way. So far some very good stuff (Olson's Kingfishers is awesome), but also some silly stuff (Olson's The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs). But placed within the context of the times, the silly stuff is also ok. Maybe I'll watch Corman's <em>Bucket of Blood</em> (so bad it's good...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71639589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just flipped through this the other day for the first time in a few years, and I'd forgotten how great it is.  It's a great anthology for finding out what was going on in American poetry immediately after the War, and it spans a short enough period (15 years) to be very comprehensive and, with a few...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3062732">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sublime, widely influential anthology of postwar American poetry, including the Black Mountain poets, the Beats, the New York School, and the San Francisco Renaissance. My own personal revelations: Brother Antoninus, Robin Blaser, and Jack Spicer. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This anthology is responsible for introducing me to a whole generation of American poets.  One can argue against dividing the poets into different &quot;schools&quot; -- Allen himself removed this in the second edition -- but this was very useful for somebody trying to find their bearings.  Also, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11593635">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I took a poetry class with this as a supplementary text. I enjoyed most of the poetry therein but found the selections at times a little frustrating for a lack of giving me a 'taste' of the poet featured.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[so much talk of this collection &amp; it's 'ground broken' in contemp. amer. poe.  so to hold my face i can't not read it any longer.   ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best resource I have found for those poets who follow the tradition of William Carlos Williams.]]></body>
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