Module Identifier ENM3220  
Module Title THE NEW POETRY AND PROSE  
Academic Year 2002/2003  
Co-ordinator To Be Arranged  
Semester Intended for use in future years  
Next year offered N/A  
Next semester offered N/A  
Other staff Mr Clive Meachen  
Course delivery Seminars / Tutorials   Seminar. 2 hours per week  
Assessment Semester Assessment   Essay: 1 x 5,000 word essay    

Content

Donald Allen's anthology "The New American Poetry" 1945-1960 remains the most important anthology of American alternative poetry in the post-war era. Despite the fact that it failed to include a sufficient number of black or women poets, it was nevertheless a remarkably accurate and useful guide to the poetry of its time and also anticipated much of the poetry and related prose that came after it. Paul Hoover's "Postmodern American Poetry" (1994) builds upon these foundations by including the Language poets and a broad base of performance-related poetries.

1. Black Mountain School and the New Poetry

   Paul Hoover (ed), "Postmodern American Poetry" (1994); Ann Charters (ed), "The Penguin Book of the Beats" (1992)

2. The "Beat" Writers

   Allen Ginsberg, "Howl" (1956)
   Jack Kerouac, "On the Road" (1957)
   See also: Paul Hoover (ed), "Postmodern American Poetry" (1994); Ann Charters (ed), "The Penguin Book of the Beats" (1992)

3. New American Prose

   Hubert Selby, "Last Exit to Brooklyn" (1966)
   Paul Hoover (ed), "Postmodern American Poetry" (1994); Ann Charters (ed), "The Penguin Book of the Beats" (1992)

4. The New York Poets

   John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, Frank O'Hara, in Paul Hoover (ed), "Postmodern American Poetry" (1994)

5. Poetry and Mythology

   Gary Snyder, "Turtle Island" (1974)
   Further reading: "Earth House Hold" (1969)