Open Poetry: Four Anthologies of Expanded Poems

by George Quasha, Ronald Gross

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.

Genres: Poetry, Anthologies

614 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973