REMEMBERING DON ALLEN

The 3rd Page commemorates
Donald M. Allen, the anthologist, poetry publisher and friend of poets who recently died in San Francisco. Literary
polymath Richard Kostelanetz writes that Allen’s ground-breaking “The New American Poetry: 1945-1960,” was “one of the
few anthologies that collected disparate materials into a persuasively coherent presentation,
making visible what was previously invisible, creating taste instead of sweeping up enthusiasms
promoted by others, which is what most lesser anthologies do.” Amen to that. And have a look,
too, at the poet Robert Creeley’s warm tribute entitled simply, in his typical understated style, Don.

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