Front cover of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, edited by Paul Hoover, softcover edition published by W. W. Norton & Company.
Spine and page edge of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology showing professor’s name written on the book edge.
Title page of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, edited by Paul Hoover, W. W. Norton & Company.
Back cover of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology showing publisher’s description and barcode.
Original printed syllabus from Professor Everett Hoagland’s Advanced Poetry Workshop, laid into the book.
Original course assignments and reading materials from Professor Everett Hoagland’s advanced poetry class, laid in.
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Front cover of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, edited by Paul Hoover, softcover edition published by W. W. Norton & Company.Spine and page edge of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology showing professor’s name written on the book edge.Title page of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, edited by Paul Hoover, W. W. Norton & Company.Back cover of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology showing publisher’s description and barcode.Original printed syllabus from Professor Everett Hoagland’s Advanced Poetry Workshop, laid into the book.Original course assignments and reading materials from Professor Everett Hoagland’s advanced poetry class, laid in.

Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology

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Description

Editor: Paul Hoover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Place of Publication: New York · London
Year: 1994
Format: Softcover (trade paperback)
Condition: Near Fine (book); associated original course materials laid in
Provenance: Association copy — Professor Everett Hoagland

Description

Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology is a landmark collection that helped define postmodern poetry within the American literary canon. Edited by poet and critic Paul Hoover, the anthology presents a wide range of experimental, multicultural, and formally innovative poets whose work reshaped American poetry in the postwar and late twentieth century.

This copy is an association copy belonging to Professor Everett Hoagland, poet, educator, and longtime professor of creative writing and literature. An association copy is a book that can be directly linked to a specific individual of significance through ownership and documented use, giving the volume historical and documentary value beyond that of an ordinary reading copy.

Laid into the book are original course materials from Hoagland’s Advanced Poetry Workshop, including the syllabus, reading lists, and assignments used in his class. These materials document how postmodern poetry was taught at the university level and represent primary-source pedagogical ephemera. They are preserved as laid-in items and have not been affixed to or altered the book.

The book itself is in Near Fine condition, with no highlighting, marginalia, or student markings, and no creasing to the spine. The binding is tight, the pages are clean, and the volume presents as a carefully kept professional teaching copy. The only marking present is Hoagland’s name written on the page edge, a normal practice for professors identifying course texts and a key element of the book’s provenance.

This is not simply a used textbook, but a well-preserved academic artifact that directly connects a foundational literary anthology to the lived practice of poetry instruction by a working poet-professor.

Scholarly and Collecting Significance

  • Foundational Norton anthology of postmodern American poetry

  • Documents experimental, multicultural, and late-20th-century poetic movements

  • Near Fine association copy owned and used by Professor Everett Hoagland

  • Includes original syllabus and teaching materials

  • Strong appeal for scholars, educators, archives, and collectors of literary ephemera