''From the Other Side of the Century: A New American Poetry, 1960–1990'' is a

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published in 1994. It was edited by American poet and publisher

Douglas Messerli Douglas Messerli (born May 30, 1947) is an American writer, professor, and publisher based in Los Angeles, California. In 1976, he started ''Sun & Moon'', a magazine of art and literature, which became Sun & Moon press, and later Green Integer ...

– under his own imprint

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– and includes poets from both the U.S. and Canada. It joined two other collections which appeared at that time: Paul Hoover's ''

Postmodern American Poetry ''Postmodern American Poetry'' is a poetry anthology edited by Paul Hoover and published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1994. A substantially revised second edition in 2012 removed some poets and added many others, incorporating additional America ...

'' (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'' (

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1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...

) 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) 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 * (4)

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, including John Cage and Jerome Rothenberg

Poets included in ''From the Other Side of the Century'' anthology

Charles Reznikoff Charles Reznikoff (August 31, 1894 – January 22, 1976) was an American poet best known for his long work, ''Testimony: The United States (1885–1915), Recitative'' (1934–1979). The term Objectivist was coined for him. The multi-volume ''Test ...

* Lorine Niedecker *

Carl Rakosi Carl Rakosi (November 6, 1903 – June 25, 2004) was the last surviving member of the original group of poets who were given the rubric Objectivist. He was still publishing and performing his poetry well into his 90s. Early life Rakosi was ...

* Louis Zukofsky *

George Oppen George Oppen (April 24, 1908 – July 7, 1984) was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism and moved to Mexico in 1950 to avoid the attentions o ...

* 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 Clarence Major (born December 31, 1936) is an American poet, painter, and novelist; winner of the 2015 "Lifetime Achievement Award in the Fine Arts", presented by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. He was awarded the 2016 PEN Oakland/Re ...

* Susan Howe * Fanny Howe *

bpNichol Barrie Phillip Nichol (30 September 1944 – 25 September 1988), known as bpNichol, was a Canadian poet, writer, sound poet, editor, Creative Writing teacher at York University in Toronto and grOnk/Ganglia Press publisher. His body of work enc ...

Aaron Shurin Aaron Shurin (born 1947) is an American poet, essayist, and educator. He is the former director of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco, where he is now Professor Emeritus. Life and work Aaron Shurin receiv ...

* Dennis Phillips * Christopher Dewdney * Barbara Guest * James Schuyler * Frank O'Hara *

John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...

* Joseph Ceravolo *

Ted Berrigan Ted Berrigan (November 15, 1934 – July 4, 1983) was an American poet. Early life Berrigan was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 15, 1934. After high school, he spent a year at Providence College before joining the U.S. Army. After t ...

* Charles North *

Ron Padgett Ron Padgett (born June 17, 1942, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. ''Great Balls of Fire'', Padgett's first full-length collection of poems, was published in 1969. He ...

Michael Brownstein Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...

* Lewis Warsh * Lorenzo Thomas * Marjorie Welish * John Godfrey * Alice Notley *

Diane Ward Diane Ward (born November 9, 1956) is a U.S. poet initially associated with the first wave of Language poetry in the 1970s and has actively published into the 21st century, maintaining a presence in various artistic communities for many decades. ...

* Robert Creeley * Hannah Weiner * David Bromige *

Clark Coolidge Clark Coolidge (born February 26, 1939) is an American poet. Background As a teenager, Coolidge attended Classical High School in Providence, Rhode Island. Coolidge attended Brown University, where his father taught in the music department. After ...

* Lyn Hejinian * Robert Grenier * Ted Greenwald *

Nick Piombino Nick Piombino (born October 5, 1942) is an American poet, essayist, artist and psychotherapist. He has been associated with poets from both the New York School of the 1960s and the Language Poets of the 1970s, though his work is not easily class ...

Ray DiPalma Ray DiPalma (1943-2016) (born in New Kensington, PA in 1943) was an American poet and visual artist who published more than 40 collections of poetry, graphic work, and translations with various presses in the US and Europe. He was educated at Duq ...

* Michael Palmer * Michael Davidson * Bernadette Mayer * James Sherry * Ron Silliman *

Rae Armantrout Rae Armantrout (born April 13, 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets. She has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies. Armantrout currently teaches at the Univers ...

Bob Perelman Bob Perelman (born December 2, 1947) is an American poet, critic, editor, and teacher. He was an early exponent of the Language poets, an avant-garde movement, originating in the 1970s. He has helped shape a "formally adventurous, politically e ...

* Barrett Watten * Kit Robinson * Charles Bernstein * Alan Davies *

Jean Day Jean Day (born 1954) is an American poet. Life and work Born in Syracuse, New York, and raised in Middletown, Rhode Island, Day graduated from Antioch College in 1977. Since then she has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and worked in liter ...

John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading fi ...

* Jackson Mac Low * Kenward Elmslie * Jerome Rothenberg * David Antin * Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones * Joan Retallack *

John Taggart John Taggart (born 1942) is an American poet and critic. Biography He was born in Guthrie Center, Iowa. He graduated with honors in 1965 from Earlham College in Indiana, earning a B.A. in English Literature and Philosophy. In 1966 he received a ...

* Nicole Brossard *

Mac Wellman Mac Wellman, born John McDowell Wellman on March 7, 1945, in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American playwright, author, and poet.Douglas Messerli Douglas Messerli (born May 30, 1947) is an American writer, professor, and publisher based in Los Angeles, California. In 1976, he started ''Sun & Moon'', a magazine of art and literature, which became Sun & Moon press, and later Green Integer ...

* Peter Inman * Steve McCaffery * Nathaniel Mackey * Leslie Scalapino *

Bruce Andrews Bruce Andrews (April 1, 1948) is an American poet who is 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). Life and work Andrews was born in Chicago and studied ...

* Steve Benson *

Abigail Child Abigail Child is a filmmaker, poet, and writer who has been active in experimental writing and media since the 1970s. She has completed more than thirty film and video works and installations, and six books. Child's early film work addressed the in ...

* Tina Darragh *

Fiona Templeton Fiona Templeton is an experimental director, playwright, poet and performer. Born in Scotland in 1951, she co-founded London's '' Theatre of Mistakes'' in the 1970s and lived for many years in the East Village of Manhattan. Her performance wo ...

* Carla Harryman

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Whose New American Poetry?: Anthologizing in the Nineties
article by Marjorie Perloff 1994 poetry books 1994 anthologies American poetry anthologies 20th-century American literature {{anthology-book-stub

Poets included in ''From the Other Side of the Century'' anthology

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