Allen, Donald, ed., The New American Poetry: 1945-1960,
New York: Grove Press, 1960.
This anthology was published to showcase those poets writing against the grain since Wolrd War II, in style and forms aligned with movements in music and
painting such as abstract expresionism and jazz. Allen organizes the poets into categories which are still used today to identify particular poetic traditions:New York School, Beat,Black Mountain School, and the San Francisco Renaissance.
Allen, Donald, and Warren Tallman, eds., The Poetics of the New American Poetry, New York: Grove Press, 1973.
This book is meant to accompany Allen's anthology, The New American.....
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