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76 Heyen, William (editor) American Poets in 1976 Indianapolis Bobbs-Merrill 1976 PS 325 .A4 Copy 2 Cloth with dustjacket. Signed by the editor. Contains over 140 poems from twenty-nine of America's contemporary poets including National Book Award recipients and Pulitzer Prize winners. Each has written an in-depth article on his life, his work, and the people and landscapes that have entered his poems--inside information that editors have hitherto found difficult or impossible to wrest from poets. Illustrated with photographs of the poets.
77 Wolf, Reva Andy Warhol, Poetry, and Gossip in the 1960s Chicago University of Chicago Press 1997 NX 512 .W37 W66 Copy 2 Paperbound. Focuses on Warhol's relationship to (and appropriation of) the Beat writers, Gerard Malanga, Ed Sanders, Taylor Mead, and others. Important new research. Profusely illustrated with photographs.
78 Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher The Continual Pilgrimage: American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960 New York Grove Press 1992 PS 159 .F5 S28 Copy 2 Cloth with dustjacket. A biographical/historical portrait of the friendships and associations the American expatriate writers formed; the cross-cultural influences they occasioned, what they discovered, and what they brought back to America.
79 Breslin, James E. B. From Modern to Contemporary American Poetry, 1945-1965 Chicago University of Chicago Press 1984 PS 323.5 .B7 copy 2 Cloth with dustjacket. The first historical study of recent American poetry. James E. B. Breslin argues that the history of American poetry forms a series of discontinuities--eruptions of creative energy that loosen poetry from its moorings and take it in new directions.This book explores one such upheaval, the radical shift in poetic theory and practice that took place in American verse around 1960 and was most dramatically announced by Allen Ginsber's "Howl", Robert Lowell's "Life Studies", and Donald Allen's anthology "The New American Poetry".
80 Writers at Work: the Paris Review Interviews, Second Series New York Viking Press 1963 PN 453 .W73 copy 3 Hard bound in black cloth with dustjacket. First American Edition. Interviews with Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, Boris Pasternak, Katherine Anne Porter, Henry Miller, Aldous Huxley, Ernest Hemingway, S.J. Perelman, Lawrence Durrell, Mary Mccarthy, Ralph Ellison, and Robert Lowell.
81 Putnam, Samuel Paris Was Our Mistress: Memoirs of a Lost & Found Generation Carbondale, Ill. Southern Illinois University Press 1970 DC 737 .P8 Paperbound. Not a sentimental picture of Paris, it is rather an attempt to explain the reasons for the exodus and the return to the United States. Includes entertaining and analytic accounts of Cocteau, Hemingway, Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Pirandello, and an ingenious explanation of Ezra Pound's apostasy, as a kind of "crackerbarrel philosopher."
82 Balakian, Anna Surrealism: the Road to the Absolute New York Noonday Press 1959 PQ 443 .B3 Paperbound. An informative study of surrealism: its philosophy, creations, and significance in literature, with extensive reference to art.
83 Seaver, Richard (et al) Editor Writers in Revolt: An Anthology New York Frederick Fell, Inc. 1963 PN 6014 .S34 Copy 2 Cloth with dustjacket. 366 pgs Includes Allen Ginsberg, Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire, Herman Hesse, Henry Miller, Iris Murdoch, Jean Genet, et al. 1st edition.
84 Corman, Cid Word for Word: Essays on the Arts of Language, Volume I Santa Barbara (Calif) Black Sparrow Press 1977 PN 37 .C6 (signed, c.2) Bound in cloth-backed boards. First edition. 116 / 200 SIGNED and numbered copies. In acetate jacket. 169 pages.
85 Howard, Richard Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950 New York Atheneum 1971 PS 323.5 .H6 (copy 3) Paperbound. Study of forty-one contemporary poets. Richard Howard an American poet, critic, and translator who was influential in introducing modern French poetry and experimental novels to readers of English and whose own volume of verse, Untitled Subjects (1969), won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1970.
86 Mackworth, Cecily The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt New York Ecco Press 1975 1339768 DT 294.7 .E2 M3 Paperbound.A biography of an extraordinary woman. Eberhardt was born in 1877, the daughter of an ex-pope of the Orthodox Church. Raised in Geneva, she finally escaped to Algeria where she became a Moslem and disguised as a man she was soon living the life of an Arab nomad. She died at the age of 27 in the great flood of 1904. This biography is based on her manuscripts and diaries.
87 Creeley, Robert The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley Berkeley University of California Press 1989 PS 3505 .R43 A16 copy 2 Cloth with dustjacket. Written from the 1950s to the 1980s and collected here for the first time, the essays show a writer deeply touched and in touch with the concerns of his post-war generation.
88 Eluard, Paul Letters to Gala New York Paragon House 1989 PQ 2609 .L75 Z48413 Copy2 Cloth with dustjacket. First American Edition. Paul Eluard was one of the most important poets of the twentieth century and was a founder of the French surrealist movement. These are letters to his wife & muse.
89 Smith, Lawrence (editor) The New Italian Poetry, 1945 to the Present: a Bilingual Anthology Berkeley University of California Press 1981 PQ 4214 .N4 copy 2 Paperbound. Postwar Italian poetry. Selections from the works of twenty-one of Italy's most influential contemporary poets.
90 Carroll, Paul The Young American Poets Chicago Follett Publishing Co. 1968 440475 PD 614 .C32 Paperbound. This anthology contains over 300 poems by 54 of the freshest and most exciting young poets to emerge on the American literary scene since 1960. Includes photographs.
91 Bartlett, Lee Talking Poetry: Conversations in the Workshop with Contemporary Poets Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press 1987 PS 325 .T3 Cloth with dustjacket. This copy is signed by the author. This is a wonderful collection of interviews with thirteen contemporary poets including Clark Coolidge, Theodore Enslin, Clayton Eshleman, William Everson, Thom Gunn, Kenneth Irby, Michael Palmer, Tom Raworth, Ishmael Reed, Stephen Rodefer, Nathaniel Tarn, Diane Wakoski, and Anne Waldman.
92 Waldman, Anne (editor) Disembodied Poetics: Annals of the Jack Kerouac School Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press 1994 30036131 PN 1042 .D57 [copy2] Paper, first, trade edition. Spoken and written remarks by the faculty this collection of critical writings includes authors and poets connected to Boulder's Jack Kerouac School. Contains pieces by: Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Ed Sanders, Susan Howe, William S. Burroughs and many others. 501pp.
93 Canner & Collins (editors) The Second Berkshire Anthology Lenox, Mass. Bookstore Press 1975 1531616 NX 510 .M4 S42 Paperbound, housed in the publisher's box. Includes work from poets and artists from Berkshire County,Massachuetts such as Richard Wilbur,William Gibson,Paul Metcalf,Clark Coolidge,David Kherdian,William L. Shirer,Edith LaSala,Mark Van Doren and others. Also, in box, a second book, "Green River: Berkshire Scenes by Michael Filmus with Text by Berkshire Authors". (Bookstore Press, Lenox);
94 Monaco, Richard The Logic of Poetry New York McGraw Hill 1974 763619 PN 1059 .M4 M6 Paperbound. Each poem in this collection includes "Considerations" at the end of each, prompting the reader to think about various acspects of the poem. The text is designed to present a linear development of the metaphoric concept and the text is kept flexible-- it's possible to be selective in choosing poems for study--the text does not need to be read from beginning to end. In addition to it's educational function, the book can serve as a relatively complete survey of English and American poetry.
95 Nemerov, Howard (editor) Poets on Poetry New York Basic Books 1966 269696 PS 324 .N4 Cloth with dustjacket. Nineteen poets write about the contemporary state of American poetry and culture. Contributors include: Conrad Aiken, John Berryman, May Swenson, Jack Gilbert, Barbara Howes, Marianne Moore, Robert Duncan, Gregory Corso, James Dickey, Richard Wilbur etc.
96 Untermeyer, Louis (editor) Modern American Poetry: A Critical Anthology New York Harcourt, Brace and Co. 1936 753620 PS 611 .U6 1936 Hard bound in purple cloth. Fifth Revised Edition. Famous collection of then modern poetry.
97 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (comp) City Lights Anthology San Francisco City Lights Books 1974 PS 507 .F47 Copy 2 Paperbound. Contains work by Allan Ginsberg, Huey Newton, Diane di Prima, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley, Richard Brautigan, Michael McClure & many others.
98 Williams, William Carlos The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams New York Random House 1951 PS 3545 .I58 Z5 copy 2 Hard bound in full blue cloth lettered in white and gilt. Second Printing. Indexed, no photos. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), American writer and pediatrician, developed in his poetry a lucid, vital style that reproduced the characteristic rhythms of American speech. In many respects Williams's Autobiography (1951) was a form of therapy, as he was able to exorcise many of his frustrations and resentments. In the end, the shock and painful self-examination that resulted a positive effect on his work; his chief poems after this period, Journey to Love (1955), "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower," and Paterson, Book V (1958), are among the finest of his career.
99 Cook, Bruce The Beat Generation New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1971 HQ 799.7 .C66 Cloth with dustjacket. Fascinating portraits and work of the key figures of this movement of the 1950's that challenged the era of conformity and led way to the Woodstock generation.
100 Polizzotti, Mark Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton New York Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux 1995 PQ 2603 .R35 Z888 c.2 Cloth with dustjacket. The first full-length biography in English of Andre Breton, the founder and prime theorist of the French Surrealist movement.