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The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry: 1993-1994

— Anthology —

Edited with a Preface by Douglas Messerli

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After an entire century of radical and exciting poetic works by major American poets, many Americans are still presented in secondary schools, universities, and the media with tired and worn little narrative sequences as best representing poetry. Innovation is a dirty word. In order to challenge these conventions and to present the excitement of contemporary poetry, The Contemporary Arts Educational Project has established an annual anthology of the best innovative new writing published in magazines, journals and books in the United States and Canada each year. These poems are humorous and dead serious, joyful and melancholic; but they all recognize that, as Stein writes, "poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of anything."

Edited by Sun & Moon Publisher Douglas Messerli, The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry presents an annual volume that will challenge and delight readers for years to come.

POETS INCLUDED:

George Albon
Will Alexander
Bruce Andrews
Mary Angeline
Rae Armantrout
Martine Bellen
Charles Bernstein
Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
David Bromige
Laynie Browne
Elizabeth Burns
Abigail Child
Norma Cole
Jeff Conant
Clark Coolidge
Robert Creeley
Robert Crosson
Michael Davidson
Daniel Davidson
Lydia Davis
Jean Day
Darin De Stefano
Jeff Derksen
Ray Dipalma
Buck Downs
Rachel Blau Duplessis
Larry Eigner
Kenward Elmslie
Elaine Equi
Brett Evans
Deanna Ferguson
Robert Fitterman
Phillip Foss
William Fuller
Forrest Gander
Peter Ganick
Drew Gardner
Peter Gizzi
Janet Gray
Jessica Grim
Barbara Guest
Lyn Hejinian
Peter Inman
Myung Mi Kim
Michael Leddy
Andrew Levy
Tan Lin
Kimberly Lyons
Karen Mac Cormack
Nathaniel Mackey
Kathryn Macleod
Tom Mandel
Steve McCaffery
John McNally
Douglas Messerli
Albert Mobilio
Jennifer Moxley
Sheila Murphy
Susan Smith Nash
A. L. Nielsen
Charles North
Michael Palmer
John Perlman
Dennis Phillips
Nick Piombino
Stephen Ratcliffe
Pam Rehm
Joan Retallack
Lisa Robertson
Elizabeth Robinson
Kit Robinson
Martha Ronk
Kim Rosenfield
Joe Ross
Susan M. Schultz
Aaron Shurin
Rod Smith
Gilbert Sorrentino
Juliana Spahr
Catriona Strang
Cole Swensen
Nathaniel Tarn
Roberto Tejada
Fiona Templeton
Bill Tuttle
Paul Vangelisti
Jeff Vetock
Liz Waldner
Mark Wallace
Craig Watson
Marjorie Welish
Elizabeth Willis