This book hews a new pathway of literary criticism on The New American Poetry that goes beyond the typical analysis of the anthology's construction and reception. It expresses new ideas about the anthology's influence on an extensive variety of people, poetics, and culture over the past fifty years, broadening the scope of what has formerly been considered regarding the anthology's authority.

Acknowledgments ... 1.The New American Poetry: Fifty Years Later John R. Woznicki ... 2."Trying to Build on Their Elders' Work": The Correspondence of Donald Allen and William Carlos Williams Paul R. Cappucci... 3.Without a Mammalia Maxima, Charles Olson and Robert Duncan Apprehend a Cosmological American Poetics Joshua S. Hoeynck... 4.Why The New American Poetry Stays News Terrence Diggory... 5."Big Kiss for Mother England": The New American Poetry in Britain Ben Hickman... 6.The New American Poetry and the Development of the Long Poem Joe Moffett... 7.Becoming Articulate: Kathleen Fraser and The New American Poetry Megan Swihart Jewell... 8."In the Dawn that is Nowhere": The New American Poetry and the State of Exception" David Herd... 9.Science and The New American Poetry Peter Middleton... 10.Aurality and Literacy: The New American Poets and the Age of Technological Reproduction Seth Forrest ... 11.The New American Poetry's Objectivist Legacy: Linguistic Skepticism, the Signifier, and Material Language Burt Kimmelman ... 12.Afterword Carla Billitteri... Contributor Biographies... Index...