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Postmodern American Poetry – A Norton Anthology Paperback – 8 June 1994

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Postmodern American Poetry provides a deep and wide selection-411 poems by 103 poets-of the major poets and movements of the late twentieth century. Included are the leading Beat and New York School poets, the Projectivists, and "Deep Image" poets. Included, too, is the rich array of poetry written since 1975-language and performance poetry, the work of African American, Hispanic, Asian American, gay and lesbian, and women experimentalists.

In addition, a final section of poetics-with writings by Frank O’Hara, Denise Levertov, Jerome Rothenberg, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Bernstein, among others-provides valuable contexts for reading the poems.
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Paul Hoover is a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University and coeditor of the literary magazine New American Writing. He has published nine books of poetry and a novel.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company (8 June 1994)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 744 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393310906
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393310900
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.48 x 3.56 x 23.62 cm
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Paul Hoover was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 1946, and currently lives in San Francisco, where he teaches at San Francisco State University and co-edits the well-known literary magazine New American Writing. His recent poetry volumes include Desolation: Souvenir (Omnidawn, 2012); Sonnet 56 (Les Figues, 2009), which consists of 56 formal variations on Shakespeare's sonnet 56; Edge and Fold (Apogee Press, 2006); Poems in Spanish (Omnidawn, 2005); Winter Mirror (Flood Editions, 2002); Rehearsal in Black (Salt Publications, 2001); Totem and Shadow: New and Selected Poems (Talisman House, 1999), and Viridian (Univerity of Georgia Press, 1997). He has also published two bilingual poetry books translated into Spanish by Maria Baranda: En el idioma y en la tierra (Mexico City: Conaculta, 2012) and La intencion y su materia (Caracas: Monte Avila Editores, 2012). Editor of a leading anthology, Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, now in its second edition (2013), he is also the author of a book of literary essays, Fables of Representation (University of Michigan Press, 2004). With Maxine Chernoff, he edited and translated Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin (Omnidawn, 2008), which won the 2009 PEN USA Translation Award. With Nguyen Do, he edited and translated Beyond the Court Gate: Selected Poems of Nguyen Trai (Counterpath Press, 2010) and Black Dog, Black Night: An Anthology of Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry (2008). He currently resides in Mill Valley, California.

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M. Noack
5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty strong over all
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I basically would like to comment on the two previous reviews, as this is a specifically oriented anthology - toward modern/postmodern poetry - & does a great job as such. Obviously, with any anthology, personal taste will impact ones own judgement, but the anthology is two broad for everything to appeal to every(any?)one. The selections are strong, generally & the book is nearly 1000 pages. There is only so much space available to the editor, & one can hardly compile a "postmodern" anthology today & ignore FLARF, conceptual poetry etc. Some things need to be cut, & to his credit, Hoover cut himself. The jury is still out on the staying power of the FLARF & conceptual selection (though I think the "LANGUAGE" selections are well established & will hold up) but Hover can hardly pretend, in an honest anthology that these trends, for lack of a better word, don't exist. Harry Mathews would be nice, as nearly the only (possibly the only?) American member of the OUILOPO group, but it could be argued that his best writing is in his novels. Isn't it nice that Hoover has made so many updates that it is well worthwhile to own both books?
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The Nibbler
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Reviewed in the United States on 8 December 2015
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Well the Nibbler is old enough to have heard about the Beat Poets, but too young to have studied them. This book is well organized and gives a brief biographical sketch of each of the poets whose works are collected here. Postmodern American poetry is not for the faint of heart. It is often explicit, lacks rhyme, and meter and at first reading, it may leave you gasping. Stick with the book, read the poems a few times and out loud at least once. It is amazing, it doesn't lack reason after all. You are sure to find a favorite. You are also sure to find some that leave you cold. Maybe you will even begin to look forward to the poetry each week in the New Yorker.
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Agides
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 January 2016
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C. Gardner
4.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly worthwhile, with a few quirks
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 July 2010
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Given 'postmodern poetry' is so vague a term, this anthology is actually a pretty useful guide to the second half of the twentieth century in American poetry and poetics. You won't find your Billy Collinses herein; it charts formal challenges and its apposite selection preserves the vitality of its poetic movements. I found it odd that it was ordered poet by poet when the selection from any one writer is a fairly unsatisfying representation of their work; a chronological-by-poem or movement-wise approach might have made a little more sense. Nevertheless, there are some excellent poems. A thoroughly worthwhile reference.
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Joseph E. Tetro
5.0 out of 5 stars Critique of Postmodern American Poetry
Reviewed in the United States on 30 April 2011
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First off, I was delighted to see a blurb on the back by my favorite poet critic Sven Birketts. In and off itself, his willingness to say "...the first antology to capture the scope of the underlying event" meant a lot to me. And the book surely does that (111 poems by 103 poets) along with a 14 page intro that explains and defines Postmodern in terms of it's incipience and in terms of its classification among other genres of poetry, stressing more than anything else its use of every day speech patterns and an overall veering away from from formalism of anykind. I see it as a one of a kind book, and felt I'd gotten exactly what I'd paid for, which was a used copy that arrived in excellent shape from one of Amazon's sellers. Forces in Modern and Postmodern Poetry (Studies in Modern Poetry)
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