The New American Poetry 1945-1960. ALLEN, Donald M. ed.

xxiii + 454 pp w/biographical notes, bibliography, and index of authors. Near fine in very good only dust jacket with some long internally tape-mended tears, sunning to spine, and soiling to rear panel. The era defining anthology, bringing together Beat, Black Mountain, New York School, and San Francisco Renaissance poets: Ashbery, Corso, Creeley, Ginsberg, Jones, Kerouac, Lamantia, Levertov, O'Hara, Olson, Schuyler, Snyder, Spicer, Welch, Wieners, and many others. Copies were invariably read to death.