From the Other Side of the Century: "A New American Poetry, 1960-1990" is a poetry anthology published in 1994. It was edited by American poet and publisher Douglas Messerli – under his own imprint Sun and Moon Press ISBN 978-1-55713-131-7 – and includes poets from both the U.S. and Canada. An anthology is a collection of literary works, originally of poems, but in recent years its usage has broadened to be applied to collections of short stories and comic strips. ... // In the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, directed by Mike Newell, W.H. Audens Stop all the clocks is read as a eulogy. ... Emily Dickinson, one of the best known American poets. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ...

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 1960's. Publisher's 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." This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Postmodern American Poetry is a 1994 poetry anthology edited by Paul Hoover; it is a Norton anthology published by W. W. Norton and Co. ... Eliot Weinberger (b. ... American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders is a 1993 poetry anthology edited by Eliot Weinberger. ... Donald Merriam Allen (b. ... The New American Poetry 1945-1960 was a poetry anthology edited by Donald Allen, and published in 1960. ... Grove Press is an American publishing imprint that was founded in 1951. ... // Eric Gregory Award: Christopher Levenson Queens Gold Medal for Poetry: John Betjeman National Book Award for Poetry: Robert Lowell, Life Studies Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. D. Snodgrass: Hearts Needle January 14 - Ralph Chubb Poetry List of poetry awards Categories: | ... Publishers Weekly is a weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. ... William Carlos Williams, who was the only poet to be published as both an Objectivist and an Imagist The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernists who emerged in the 1930s. ... Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ...

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

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

The Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, after the magazine that bears that name) are an avant garde group or tendency in United States poetry that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s; its central figures are all actively writing, teaching, and performing... Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during performance before an audience. ...

Poets included in From the Other Side of the Century anthology

Charles Reznikoff -- Lorine Niedecker -- Carl Rakosi -- Louis Zukofsky -- George Oppen -- Charles Olson -- Robert Duncan -- Robin Blaser -- Jack Spicer -- Allen Ginsberg -- Larry Eigner -- Gilbert Sorrentino -- John Wieners -- Robert Kelly -- Ronald Johnson -- Rosmarie Waldrop -- Kenneth Irby -- Clarence Major -- Susan Howe -- Fanny Howe -- bpNichol -- Aaron Shurin -- Dennis Phillips -- Christopher Dewdney -- Barbara Guest -- James Schuyler -- Frank O'Hara -- John Ashbery -- Joseph Ceravolo -- Ted Berrigan -- Charles North -- Ron Padgett -- Michael Brownstein -- Lewis Warsh -- Lorenzo Thomas -- Marjorie Welish -- John Godfrey -- Alice Notley -- Diane Ward -- Robert Creeley -- Hannah Weiner -- David Bromige -- Clark Coolidge -- Lyn Hejinian -- Robert Grenier -- Ted Greenwald -- Nick Piombino -- Ray DiPalma -- Michael Palmer -- Michael Davidson -- Bernadette Mayer -- James Sherry -- Ron Silliman -- Rae Armantrout -- Bob Perelman -- Barrett Watten -- Kit Robinson -- Charles Bernstein -- Alan Davies -- Jean Day -- John Cage -- Jackson Mac Low -- Kenward Elmslie -- Jerome Rothenberg -- David Antin -- Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones -- Joan Retallack -- John Taggart -- Nicole Brossard -- Mac Wellman -- Douglas Messerli -- Peter Inman -- Steve McCaffery -- Nathaniel Mackey -- Leslie Scalapino -- Bruce Andrews -- Steve Benson -- Abigail Child -- Tina Darragh -- Fiona Templeton -- Carla Harryman. 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Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was an important 2nd generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, a rubric which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat... Robert Duncan (January 7, 1919 – February 3, 1988), was an American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets and the beat generation. ... Robin Blaser (born 18 May 1925) is a noted author and poet in both the United States and Canada. ... This page is about the poet. ... Irwin Allen Ginsberg (IPA: ) (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet. ... Larry Eigner(1927- February 3rd, 1996) was an American poet associated with the group of poets that centered around Charles Olson at Black Mountain College in the mid 20th Century. ... Gilbert Sorrentino (April 27, 1929 – May 18, 2006) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and editor. ... John Wieners (born 6 January 1934 in Milton, Massachusetts, and died 1 March 2002 in Boston) was a United States lyric poet. ... Robert Kelly (born 1935) is an American poet associated with the deep image group. ... Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1935) is a poet, translator and publisher. ... Kenneth Irby (b. ... Susan Howe (born 1937) is an Irish-born American poet and critic who is closely associated with the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of poets. ... Fanny Howe (born 1940) is an United States poet and writer of fiction. ... Barrie Phillip Nichol (September 30, 1944 _ September 25, Canadian poet. ... Aaron Shurin is an American poet, essayist, and educator. ... Christopher Dewdney (born May 9, 1951) is an avant-garde Canadian poet. ... Barbara Guest (born 1920) is an American poet and critic who is frequently associated with the New York School. ... James Schuyler(9 November 1923 – 12 April 1991) was a major American poet in the late 20th century. ... Francis Russell OHara (June 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of what was known as the New York School of poetry. ... John Ashbery John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet. ... Joseph Ceravolo (April 22, 1934 – September 4, 1988) was an American poet associated with the second generation of the New York School. ... Ted Berrigan (15 November 1934 - 4 July 1983) was an American poet. ... Charles North is an American poet born in 1941 in New York City. ... Ron Padgett, born in 1942 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a poet and member of the New York School. ... Lorenzo Thomas (August 31, 1944 – July 4, 2005) is an American poet and critic. ... Marjorie Welish is an American poet, artist, and art critic. ... Hon. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Robert Creeley (May 21, 1926 - March 30, 2005) was an American poet, author of more than sixty books, and usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that schools. ... Hannah Weiner (November 4, 1928 - 1997) was an American poet who was a prominent member of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of poets. ... Biography David Bromige (born 1933) is a Canadian poet who now lives in Sebastopol, California. ... Clark Coolidge (February 26, 1939 – ) is an American poet born in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Lyn Hejinian (born 1941) is a United States poet, essayist, translator and publisher. ... Robert Grenier (1941– ) is a contemporary American poet who is often associated with the Language School. ... Ray DiPalma (born 1943), an American poet and visual artist, is the author of more than thirty collections of poetry and visual work. ... Michael Palmer (b. ... Michael Davidson, an American poet and critic, has written eight books of poetry as well as numerous historical, cultural and critical works. ... Bernadette Mayer (born in 1945 in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is a poet and prose writer. ... James Sherry is an Australian television presenter and actor. ... Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946 in Pasco, Washington) is a contemporary American poet. ... Rae Armantrout (born 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of poets. ... Bob Perelman is an American poet, critic, editor and teacher. ... Barrett Watten, American poet (b. ... Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, critic, editor and teacher. ... Alan Davies is a contemporary American poet, critic, and editor who has been writing and publishing since the 1970s. ... John Cage For the character of John Cage from the TV show Ally McBeal see: John Cage (Character). ... Jackson Mac Low (September 12, 1922 - December 8, 2004) was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practioneer of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of... The diverse work of Kenward Elmslie, writer, performer, editor and publisher associated with the New York School of poetry, cannot be pigeonholed into one style of writing. ... Jerome Rothenberg (born 1931) is an American poet and editor who is noted for his work in ethnopoetics. ... David Antin David Antin (born in New York City in 1932) is a United States poet and critic. ... Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones on October 7, 1934, in Newark, New Jersey) is a American writer of poetry, drama, essays, and music criticism. ... Nicole Brossard (born November 27, 1943 in Montreal) is a leading French Canadian formalist poet and novelist. ... American avant-garde playwright, author, and poet. ... P. Inman is an American poet who was born in 1947 and raised on Long Island. ... Steven McCaffery (born January 24, 1947) is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor at York University, but now holds the Gray Chair at SUNY Buffalo (Amherst). ... Nathaniel Mackey is an American poet, novelist, anthologist, literary critic, editor and Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. ... Bruce Andrews (born 1948) is an American poet who was one of the key figures associated with the Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, after the magazine that bears that name). ... Tina Darragh (born 1950) is an United States poet who was one of the original members of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group. ... Carla Harryman (born 1952) is a United States poet and playwright associated with the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of poets. ...

External links

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