Donald M. ( editor ). The New American Poetry. 1945-1960.

by ALLEN

£2,500 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Allen Ginsberg's Copy ALLEN, Donald M. ( editor ). The New American Poetry. 1945-1960. New York: Grove Press Inc., [and] London: Evergreen Books Ltd. 1960. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt; in the original illustrated dust wrapper (not price-clipped); top edge blue, mustard endpapers; pp. xxiv, 454, [2]; slight toning to wrapper, with a few nicks and light rubbing to extremities; signed without dedication by Donald Allen to the title page, with laid in contract signed by the editor and Allen Ginsberg; internally bright and clean, a fine copy in very good wrapper. Allen Ginsberg’s copy of Donald M. Allen’s anthology of post-war American poetry, signed by the editor with Ginsberg’s contract letter laid in, signed by both; the book that introduced Black Mountain, New York School, and Beat poets to an international audience, the anthology was a touchstone and talisman for J. H. Prynne and Andrew Crozier, among others. Few anthologies are significant books in their own right, and even fewer remain useful and in print sixty-five years after first publication. Donald Allen’s anthology of post-war American poetry is of that select group. Apart from its scope, and the inclusion of poets and poems outside the mainstream (many remain outside) and available solely in scarce chapbooks or unpublished, it is the intelligence informing the selections from each poet, and juxtapositions between them, that stands out. As well as introducing a generation of Am

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