Over the past hundred-plus years, the mutual interest of Russia and the United States in each other’s literature has not weakened, despite political conflicts and disagreements between the two countries. However, the trends of modern American poetry—trends that, since the middle of the last century, have been searching for new languages and forms of literary writing—are still not sufficiently familiar to the domestic reader. The anthology aims to fill this gap and most fully present to the Russian-speaking public the four main American poetic movements - the Black Mountain School (Black Mountain), the New York School, the San Francisco Renaissance and the Language School (Language Writing). Inherited by American modernists ranging from Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound to Louis Zukofsky and William Carlos Williams, these trends continue to actively develop in our time. The book includes works written from the early 1950s to the 20s of the 21st century, and each section of the anthology is preceded by an essay on the history of the corresponding direction, based on current scientific literature.