The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry, 1970-2000

by Edward Foster (editor)

The first major history of innovative American poetry in our time. Written for the general reader as well as for poets and scholars, the book includes contributions by major literary critics and poets, whose essays map the complex terrain of avant-garde American poetry in the final decades if the Twentieth Century. The book includes essays on gnostic poetry, language writing, poetry slams, feminist literary journals, Asian-American poets, neo-Objectivists, visual poetry, poetry utilizing the internet, African-American poets, small magazines and presses in Los Angeles, New York School poets, neo-Surreaists, prose poetry, poetry anthologies, and much more. No book on its subject is more comprehensive

480 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2002