Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry: 1993-1994

Edited with a Preface by Douglas Messerli

Series No.: SM Messerli

ISBN: 978-1-55713-161-4, Pages: 333

American Literature, Poetry

A Sun & Moon title.

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After an entire century of radical and exciting poetic works by major American poets, many Americans are still presented in secondary schools, universities, and the media with tired and worn little narrative sequences as best representing poetry. Innovation is a dirty word. In order to challenge these conventions and to present the excitement of contemporary poetry, The Contemporary Arts Educational Project has established an annual anthology of the best innovative new writing published in magazines, journals and books in the United States and Canada each year. These poems are humorous and dead serious, joyful and melancholic; but they all recognize that, as Stein writes, "poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of anything."

Edited by Sun & Moon Publisher Douglas Messerli, The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry presents an annual volume that will challenge and delight readers for years to come.

POETS INCLUDED:

George Albon

Will Alexander

Bruce Andrews

Mary Angeline

Rae Armantrout

Martine Bellen

Charles Bernstein

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

David Bromige

Laynie Browne

Elizabeth Burns

Abigail Child

Norma Cole

Jeff Conant

Clark Coolidge

Robert Creeley

Robert Crosson

Michael Davidson

Daniel Davidson

Lydia Davis

Jean Day

Darin De Stefano

Jeff Derksen

Ray Dipalma

Buck Downs

Rachel Blau Duplessis

Larry Eigner

Kenward Elmslie

Elaine Equi

Brett Evans

Deanna Ferguson

Robert Fitterman

Phillip Foss

William Fuller

Forrest Gander

Peter Ganick

Drew Gardner

Peter Gizzi

Janet Gray

Jessica Grim

Barbara Guest

Lyn Hejinian

Peter Inman

Myung Mi Kim

Michael Leddy

Andrew Levy

Tan Lin

Kimberly Lyons

Karen Mac Cormack

Nathaniel Mackey

Kathryn Macleod

Tom Mandel

Steve McCaffery

John McNally

Douglas Messerli

Albert Mobilio

Jennifer Moxley

Sheila Murphy

Susan Smith Nash

A. L. Nielsen

Charles North

Michael Palmer

John Perlman

Dennis Phillips

Nick Piombino

Stephen Ratcliffe

Pam Rehm

Joan Retallack

Lisa Robertson

Elizabeth Robinson

Kit Robinson

Martha Ronk

Kim Rosenfield

Joe Ross

Susan M. Schultz

Aaron Shurin

Rod Smith

Gilbert Sorrentino

Juliana Spahr

Catriona Strang

Cole Swensen

Nathaniel Tarn

Roberto Tejada

Fiona Templeton

Bill Tuttle

Paul Vangelisti

Jeff Vetock

Liz Waldner

Mark Wallace

Craig Watson

Marjorie Welish

Elizabeth Willis