With more than 100,000 copies sold, The New American Poetry has become one of the most influential anthologies published in the United States since World War II. As one of the first counter-cultural collections of American verse, this volume fits in Robert Lowell's famous definition of the raw in American poetry. Many of the contributors once derided in the mainstream press of the period are now part of the postmodern canon: Olson, Duncan, Creeley, Guest, Ashbery, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Levertov, O'Hara, Snyder, Schuyler, and others. Donald Allen's The New American Poetry delivered the first taste of these remarkable poets, and the book has since become an invaluable historical and cultural record, now available again for a new generation of readers. (amazon.com)

http://www.amazon.com/New-American-Poetry-1945-1960/dp/0520209532

index of authors

Helen Adam - John Ashbery - Paul Blackburn - Robin Blaser - Ebbe Borregaard - Bruce Boyd - Ray Bremser - Brother Antoninus - James Broughton - Paul Carroll - Gregory Corso - Robert Creeley - Edward Dorn - Kirby Doyle - Robert Duerden - Robert Duncan - Larry Eigner - Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Edward Field - Allen Ginsberg - Madeline Gleason - Barbara Guest - LeRoi Jones - Jack Kerouac - Kenneth Koch - Philip Lamantia - Denise Levertov - Ron Loewinsohn - Edward Marshall - Michael McClure - David Meltzer - Frank O'Hara - Charles Olson - Joel Oppenheimer - Peter Orlovsky - Stuart Perkoff - James Schuyler - Gary Snyder - Gilbert Sorrentino - Jack Spicer - Lew Welch - Philip Whalen - John Wieners - Jonathan Williams (wiki page)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_American_Poetry_1945-1960