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has gloss | eng: Postmodern American Poetry is a 1994 poetry anthology edited by Paul Hoover; it is a Norton anthology published by W. W. Norton & Company. The introduction identifies the use of postmodern with its early mention by Charles Olson, and identifies the field chosen as experimental poetry from after 1945. The book contains, besides poems, about 20 short essays on poetics. | class="toccolours" style="float: right; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 1em; font-size: 90%; background:#CC9966; width:30em; max-width: 40%;" cellspacing="5" | style="text-align: left;" | : "In the case of these anthologists [Weinberger, Messerli, and Hoover], it is a nostalgia predicated on a “recuperation” of New American poetic dissidents, but the logic is flawed because they’ve come too late to get in on the fruits of first acclaim. All aspire to huddle with Donald Allen . . . " |- | style="text-align: right;" | Jed Rasula |} It joined two other collections which appeared at that time: From the Other Side of the Century: "A New American Poetry, 1960-1990" (1994; edited by Douglas Messerli) and American Poetry Since 1950 (1993; edited by Eliot Weinberger). |
lexicalization | eng: Postmodern American Poetry |
instance of | c/Poetry anthologies |
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