The New American Poetry 1945 - 1960
- New York: Grove Press, 1960
New York: Grove Press, 1960. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Grove Press, 1960. First Edition, cloth issue. Octavo; 454pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price present. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt; dark topstain; mustard endpapers. Dust jacket worn with light chipping to edges; rippling and sunning along spine; spotting and soiling. Boards show light sheflwear with minor fading along edges. Binding sound; brief notes in pencil to rear, else unmarked; Very Good.
Perhaps the most noteworthy and influential poetry anthology of the last seventy-five years. Donald Allen brought together the works of many little known poets of the time from Black Mountain, the New York School, and the Beats and the San Francisco Renaissance, many of whom had only been published in small press magazines. Per Clay and Phillips, "There was no more significant poetry anthology in the second half of the twentieth century," and as Allen notes in his introduction, "These poets have already created their own tradition, their own press, and their public. They are our avant-garde, the true continuers of the modern movement in American poetry," (p. xi).
Clay and Phillips. "A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing 1960-1980," p. 13.
Perhaps the most noteworthy and influential poetry anthology of the last seventy-five years. Donald Allen brought together the works of many little known poets of the time from Black Mountain, the New York School, and the Beats and the San Francisco Renaissance, many of whom had only been published in small press magazines. Per Clay and Phillips, "There was no more significant poetry anthology in the second half of the twentieth century," and as Allen notes in his introduction, "These poets have already created their own tradition, their own press, and their public. They are our avant-garde, the true continuers of the modern movement in American poetry," (p. xi).
Clay and Phillips. "A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing 1960-1980," p. 13.