Neo-Barroco, the Missing Group of the New American Poetry

The New American Poetry anthology delineated “schools” of North poetry which have become seminal: Black Mountain School (Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov), the York (John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Frank O’Hara), San Francisco Renaissance (Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer), and Beats (Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure). word seminal is used in a traditional way, from root: “of seed or semen … full possibilities”, but here also because work dominated by men omission poets like Diane di Prima Joanne Kyger seems especially egregious now. As compared to whiteness academic verse time, was radical more diverse, could be seen as quite inadequate those aspects contemporary perspective. Of course culture must always judged proper context, including its era has had powerful impact on continent it came. This paper posits that Poetry, looked even slightly off shore America, included Neo-Barroco school Latin poetry. affinities are almost endless limited scope most post-war generation exposed.