Research - ENGL 4389 - Postmodern Poetry - Spring 2003

The following texts are available at the Dunnagan Library; ask for guidance at the circulation or reference desks.
After you consult some books,  electronic sources may also be useful.

 

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General Sources

American poets since World War II. Sixth series / edited by Joseph Conte. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vols 165, 169, 193.[***Contains individual introductions to many poets, with strong biographies.   Most entries available electronically through the library database Gale Research***]

Sulfur-A Literary Biannual of the Whole Art. [43 issues of an influential poetry journal, featuring a cross-cut of postmodern poets, reviews, translations, and essays.] PS501 .S84 [Book/Journal]

The New Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors ; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. PN1021 .N39 1993 -- BOOK

Postmodern poetry : the Talisman interviews / interviewed by Edward Foster.  PS325 .F67 1994 -- BOOK

A companion to twentieth-century poetry / edited by Neil Roberts. PR601 .C56 2001 -- BOOK

Artifice & indeterminacy : an anthology of new poetics / edited by Christopher Beach. PN1055 .A76 1998 -- BOOK

Towards a new American poetics : essays & interviews : Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley, Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg / edited by Ekbert Faas. PS325 .F3 1978 -- BOOK

We who love to be astonished : experimental women's writing and performance poetics / edited by Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue. PS151 .W36 2002 -- BOOK

The new American poetry / edited by Donald M. Allen. [historic anthology of poems, with introduction and artists statements] PS614 .A59 1960 -- BOOK

Radical artifice : writing poetry in the age of media / Marjorie Perloff. PS325 .P38 1991 -- BOOK

The Politics of poetic form : poetry and public policy / Charles Bernstein, editor. PN1081 .P66 1990 -- BOOK

Songs of degrees : essays on contemporary poetry and poetics / John Taggart ; with a foreword by Marjorie Perloff. PS323.5 .T34 1994 -- BOOK

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Projective Verse/ Black Mountain

ABC of influence : Ezra Pound and the remaking of American poetic tradition / Christopher Beach. PS323.5 .B38 1992 -- BOOK

Self and sensibility in contemporary American poetry / Charles Altieri. PS325 .A38 1984 -- BOOK

Robert Creeley / by Arthur L. Ford.PS3505.R43 Z67 1978

Contexts of poetry: interviews, 1961-1971. Edited by Donald Allen. [with Creeley]. : PS3505.R43 C6 -- BOOK

Understanding the Black mountain poets / Edward Halsey Foster [Olson, Creeley, Duncan] PS266.N8 F67 1995

Denise Levertov : new perspectives / edited by Anne Colclough Little and Susie Paul. PS3562.E8876 Z62 2000 -- BOOK

Destructive poetics : Heidegger and modern American poetry / Paul A. Bov e. PS78 .B57 -- BOOK

The grounding of American poetry : Charles Olson and the Emersonian tradition / Stephen Fredman PS3529.L655 Z65 1993 -- BOOK

Olson's push : Origin, Black Mountain, and recent American poetry / Sherman Paul PS3529.L655 Z84 -- BOOK

Charles Olson : the scholar's art / Robert von Hallberg. PS3529.L655 Z9 -- BOOK

The failure of modernism : symptoms of American poetry / Andrew Ross. [Olson, Ashbery] PS310.M57 R67 1986 -- BOOK

Career moves : Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American avant-garde / Libbie Rifkin PS323.5 .R53 2000 -- BOOK

Selected poems / Charles Olson ; edited by Robert Creeley PS3529.L655 A6 1993 -- BOOK

Collected prose / Charles Olson ; edited by Donald Allen and Benjamin Friedlander, with an introduction by Robert Creeley PS3529.L655 A6 1997 -- BOOK

Selected writings. Edited, with an introd., by Robert Creeley PS3529.L655A6 1967 -- BOOK

The collected poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975. PS3505.R43 A17 1982 -- BOOK

The collected essays of Robert Creeley. PS3505.R43 A16 1989 -- BOOK

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Performance

Writings through John Cage's music, poetry, and art / edited by David W. Bernstein and Christopher Hatch. ML410.C24 W74 2001 -- BOOK

The theatre of mixed means; an introduction to happenings, kinetic environments, and other mixed-means  Performance s. PN3203 .K6 -- BOOK

A book of the book : some works & projections about the book & writing / edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Steven Clay. PN1042 .B58 2000 -- BOOK

Close listening : poetry and the performed word / edited by Charles Bernstein. PN1042 .C46 1998 -- BOOK

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Beat Poetry

Understanding the Beats / Edward Halsey Foster. PS228.B6 F67 1992 -- BOOK

Allen Ginsberg, by Thomas F. Merrill PS3513.I74 Z8 -- BOOK

Girls who wore black : women writing the beat generation / edited by Ronna C. Johnson and Nancy M. Grace. PS228.B6 W66 2002 -- BOOK

The beats : a documentary volume / edited by Matt Theado. PN451 .D5 v.237 -- BOOK

The birth of the beat generation : visionaries, rebels, and hipsters, 1944-1960 / Steven Watson. PS228.B6 W38 1995 -- BOOK

Journals : early fifties, early sixties / Allen Ginsberg ; edited by Gordon Ball. PS3513.I74 Z516 1978 -- BOOK

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New York School

The last avant-garde : the making of the New York School of Poets / by David Lehman. PS255.N5 L45 1998 -- BOOK

The scene of my selves : new work on New York school poets / edited by Terence Diggory and Stephen Paul Miller PS255.N5 S34 2001 -- BOOK

In the process of poetry : the New York school and the avant-garde / William Watkin. PS255.N5 W38 2001 -- BOOK

Politics and form in postmodern poetry : O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill / Mutlu Konuk Blasing PS310.P6 B58 1995 -- BOOK

The collected poems of Frank O'Hara / edited by Donald Allen ; with an introduction by John Ashbery. PS3529.H28 A17 1995 -- BOOK 

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LANGUAGE POETRY

The new sentence / Ron Silliman. PN1059.M4 S55 1995 -- BOOK

The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E book / edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein. PN45 .L2 1984 -- BOOK

Telling it slant : avant-garde poetics of the 1990s / edited by Mark Wallace and Steven Marks.  PS325 .T45 2002 -- BOOK

My way : speeches and poems / Charles Bernstein. : PS3552.E7327 M9 1999 -- BOOK

A poetics / Charles Bernstein. ?No Call Number

The language of inquiry / Lyn Hejinian. PS3558.E4735 L36 2000 -- BOOK

Prior to meaning : the protosemantic and poetics / Steve McCaffery. PR9190.5 .M38 2001 -- BOOK

Translating the unspeakable : poetry and the innovative necessity : essays / by Kathleen Fraser. PS151 .F75 2000 -- BOOK

Everybody's autonomy : connective reading and collective identity / Juliana Spahr. PS310.L33 S63 2001 -- BOOK

Poetic investigations : singing the holes in history / Paul Naylor. PS310.H57 N39 1999 -- BOOK

Poetic epistemologies : gender and knowing in women's language-oriented writing / Megan Simpson. On Order?

The marginalization of poetry : language writing and literary history / Bob Perelman. PS325 .P37 1996 -- BOOK

Disjunctive poetics : from Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe / Peter Quartermain. PS323.5 .Q37 1992 -- BOOK

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Ethnopoetics

Symposium of the whole : a range of discourse toward an ethnopoetics / edited with commentaries by Jerome Rothenberg & Diane Rothenberg. PN1081 .S9 1983 -- BOOK

In search of the primitive : rereading David Antin, Jerome Rothenberg, and Gary Snyder / Sherman Paul PS310.P68 P38 1986 -- BOOK

Companion spider : essays / Clayton Eshleman ; foreword by Adrienne Rich. PS3555.S5 C66 2001 -- BOOK

Shaking the pumpkin : traditional poetry of the Indian North Americas / [compiled by] Jerome Rothenberg. PM197.E3 S5 1991 -- BOOK

America, a prophecy; a new reading of American poetry from pre-Columbian times to the present. Edited by George Quasha and Jerome Rothenberg. PS586 .Q37 -- BOOK

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Identity

Redefining American literary history / edited by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, Jr [Collectin of essays on ethnicity in literature] PS153.M56 R4 1990 -- BOOK

Extraordinary measures : Afrocentric modernism and twentieth-century American poetry / Lorenzo Thomas PS310.N4 T48 2000 -- BOOK

Discrepant engagement : dissonance, cross-culturality, and experimental writing / Nathaniel Mackey PS221 .M24 1993 -- BOOK

Blues, ideology, and Afro-American literature : a vernacular theory / Houston A. Baker, Jr. PS153.N5 B23 1984 -- BOOK

The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka reader / by Amiri Baraka ; edited by William Harris in collaboration with Amiri BarakaPS3552.A583 A6 2000 -- BOOK

Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) : a collection of critical essays / edited by Kimberly W. Benston PS3552.A583 Z7 -- BOOK

Performing the word : African-American poetry as vernacular culture / Fahamisha Patricia Brown. PS310.N4 B76 1999 -- BOOK

Chicano poetry : a response to chaos / by Bruce-Novoa. PS153.M4 B73 1982 -- BOOK

Movements in Chicano poetry : against myths, against margins / Rafael Perez-Torres. PS153.M4 P47 1995 -- BOOK

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