The New American Poetry 1945-1960

by Allen, Donald M., editor [Cid Corman]

$1,200 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

Grove Press, 1960. First edition, first printing. Seminal anthology of one of the more important anthologies in all of American literature. Very close to fine in good dust jacket with trifle loss to top edge of spine. From the library of poet and editor Cid Corman as an intriguing association copy in that Cid Corman like Allen was an active editor in the 1960s and onward. Cid was invited into the anthology and refused for Cid reasons - a cross blend of poets here is exciting from Stuart Z. Perkoff to Gary Snyder, Barbara Guest to Madeline Gleason, Ray Bremser to Lew Welch and then many of the very well known : John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles Olson, Paul Blackburn, Gregory Corso. Kirby Doyle, Bruce Boyd, young David Meltzer, all sneak in with Richard Duerden. Along with informative biographical notes and bibliography. This is the book! Cid s signature is on his small fully signed bookplate to the half title page. Uncharacteristically, this copy from Cid Corman is unmarked. In mylar cover

• Publisher: Grove Press, 1960
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: unknown

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