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Famous Postmodern Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Postmodern poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous postmodern poems. These examples illustrate what a famous postmodern poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
...system
about how the contract on America
is really good for us etcetera
As all the while the plane lumbers on
into its postmodern
manifest destiny...Read more of this...



by Raine, Kathleen
...-trade,
hatred and slaughter
profitable employment
of our thriving cities,
the arms-race
to the end of the world
of our postmodern, 
post-Christian,
post-human nations,
progress to the nihil
of our spent civilization.
But cause and effect,
just and inexorable
law of the universe
no fix of science,
nor amenable god
can save from ourselves
the selves we have become —
At the end of history
to whom can we pray
but to the destroyer,
the liberator, the purifier?

In the beginni...Read more of this...

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