Open Poetry _ Four Anthologies of Expanded Poems

Gross, Ronald; Quasha, George; Williams, Emmett; Colombo, John Robert; Lowenfels, Walter (eds)

ISBN 10: 0671211390 / ISBN 13: 9780671211394

Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1973

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light brown cloth, mylar wrapped dust jacket, 614 pp, dj lightly chipped at the top edge of front cover and torn at the top end of spine and at the bottom left corner of its back cover, top and fore edges foxed, stamp to bottom edge Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Open Poetry _ Four Anthologies of Expanded Poems
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671211390
• ISBN 13: 9780671211394
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Cloth/mylar wrapped dust jacket Octavo.
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Edited by Ronald Gross and George Quasha, with Emmett Williams, John Robert Colombo, and Walter Lowenfels.

A mammoth(over 600 pages)anthology of poems for most part published in the 60s representing four present tendencies of poetry--Metapoetry: the Poetry of changes, Language Happenings (Concrete & Internedia Poetry), Found Poetry & the 'Poetry of Survival'.

Works by David Antin, Charles Bukowski, John Cage, Harold Dicker, Anselm Hollo, Jim Harrison, George Oppen, Rochelle Owens, Claes Oldenburg, Edward Lucie-Smith, Tar Lee Sun, Afeanyi Menkiti, et al. Contents: Metapoetry: The Poetry of Changes; Language Happenings; Found Poetry; The Avant-Garde of Black Poetry.