American Poetry Since 1950 (poetry anthology)

American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders is a 1993

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poetry anthology edited by Eliot Weinberger

Eliot Weinberger

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. First published by Marsilio Publishers, it joined two other collections which appeared at that time: From the Other Side of the Century: "A New American Poetry, 1960-1990

From the Other Side of the Century

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; edited by Douglas Messerli) and "Postmodern American Poetry

Postmodern American Poetry

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", a 1994

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poetry anthology edited by Paul Hoover

Paul Hoover

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. These three anthologies were perhaps seeking to be for their time what Donald Allen

Donald Allen

Donald Merriam Allen , influential editor, publisher, and translator of contemporary American literature. He is perhaps best known for his project The New American Poetry 1945-1960 , among the several important anthologies of contemporary American innovative writing he made available to the public...

's anthology, The New American Poetry

The New American Poetry 1945-1960

The New American Poetry 1945–1960 was a poetry anthology edited by Donald Allen, and published in 1960. It aimed to pick out the "third generation" of American modernist poets, and included quite a number of poems fresh from the little magazines of the late 1950s. In the longer term it attained a...

(Grove Press

Grove Press

Grove Press is an American publishing imprint that was founded in 1951. Imprints include: Black Cat, Evergreen, Venus Library, Zebra. Barney Rosset purchased the company in 1951 and turned it into an alternative book press in the United States. The Atlantic Monthly Press, under the aegis of its...

, 1960), was for the 1960s.

"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 . . . "

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Weinberger chooses thirty-five "innovators and outsiders," all of them from the U.S.. As in the two Donald Allen

Donald Allen

anthologies of The New American Poetry

The New American Poetry 1945-1960

, no poets from other English-speaking countries are included. Weinberger's two principles of inclusion are (1) only poems first published in book form since 1950 and (2) no poets born after World War II.

Poets included in American Poetry Since 1950

The following is a chronological list (from the year of the poet's birth). William Carlos Williams, listed here first, was born in 1883. Michael Palmer, listed here last, was born in 1943. This chronological listing differs slightly from the order of each poet's appearance in the anthology itself, which opens with Charles Olson's poem "The Kingfishers", a poem that made its first appearance in 1950.

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

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-- Ezra Pound

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-- H.D.

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-- Charles Reznikoff

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-- Langston Hughes

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-- Lorine Niedecker

Lorine Niedecker

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-- Louis Zukofsky

Louis Zukofsky

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-- Kenneth Rexroth

Kenneth Rexroth

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-- George Oppen

George Oppen

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-- Charles Olson

Charles Olson

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-- William Everson

William Everson

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-- John Cage

John Cage

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-- Muriel Rukeyser

Muriel Rukeyser

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-- William Bronk

William Bronk

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-- Robert Duncan

Robert Duncan (poet)

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-- Jackson Mac Low

Jackson Mac Low

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-- Denise Levertov

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-- Jack Spicer

Jack Spicer

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-- Paul Blackburn

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-- Robert Creeley

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-- Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

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-- Frank O'Hara

Frank O'Hara

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-- John Ashbery

John Ashbery

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-- Nathaniel Tarn

Nathaniel Tarn

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-- Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder

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-- Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg

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-- David Antin

David Antin

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-- Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka

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-- Clayton Eshleman

Clayton Eshleman

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-- Ronald Johnson

Ronald Johnson (poet)

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-- Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly (poet)

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-- Gustaf Sobin

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-- Susan Howe

Susan Howe

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-- Clark Coolidge

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-- Michael Palmer

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Whose New American Poetry?: Anthologizing in the Nineties

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Poets included in American Poetry Since 1950

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