The Alchemist to Mercury: An Alternate Opus: Uncollected Poems 1960-1980
by Douglas Messerli, Mac Wellman
Category: Poetry

Since 1970, many readers have waited for another anthology that incorporates poets writing after Donald Allen's 1960 The New American Poetry. Organized into somewhat arbitrary and non-rigid categories, these selections present poetry that has reshaped our language, culture, and thought for the past 30 years.