From the Other Side of the Century

From the Other Side of the Century: A New American Poetry 1960-1990

Editor	Douglas Messerli
Country	United States of America
Language	English
Genre	Poetry, Anthology
Publisher	Sun & Moon Press
Publication date	1994
Pages	1136
ISBN	1-55713-131-7

It joined two other collections which appeared at that time: Paul Hoover's Postmodern American Poetry (Norton, 1994) and Eliot Weinberger's American Poetry Since 1950 (Marsilio, 1993). All three perhaps seeking to be for that time what Donald Allen's The New American Poetry (Grove Press, 1960) was for the 1960s. Publishers Weekly noted that "A strength of Messerli's book: he offers space enough to each poet, so that readers can trace developing poetic concerns, beginning with the Objectivists – the anthology's first poem is Charles Reznikoff's "Children," a Holocaust piece."

Messerli highlights 81 poets altogether and organizes the anthology by dividing the poets into four thematic "gatherings":

• (1) , including Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, and Allen Ginsberg
• (2) , including Barbara Guest, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, and Ted Berrigan
• (3) language poets, including Robert Creeley and Charles Bernstein
• (4) performance poets, including John Cage and Jerome Rothenberg

Poets included in From the Other Side of the Century anthology[]

See also[]

• 1994 in poetry
• 1994 in literature
• American poetry
• Canadian poetry
• List of poetry anthologies

References[]

External links[]

• Whose New American Poetry?: Anthologizing in the Nineties article by Marjorie Perloff

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