What are the essential postmodern novels/stories/poems?

What are the essential postmodern novels/stories/poems?

Yes

Here is my postmodern poem.
Poem Poem Poem
Poem Poem
Poem Poem Poem

Bad thread so far

Underage

This is
a very
good
thread

Novels?
Some Barth (I know jack about Barth, someone else can specify later).
Gravity's Rainbow.
The Magus.
The Cannibal.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.
The Correction.
2666.
Wittgenstein's Mistress.
Blood Meridian.
Some Delillo.
American Pastoral.
Double or Nothing.
Etc.

William H. Gass

>postmodern poetry

?

Hello OP

dat shakespeare play dats a play wid in a play

>The Corrections.

You had to ruin your little list.

CALM DOWN IT'S BERNHARD NOT FRANZEN.

Yeah I was wondering the same and the closest thing resembling a "postmodern poet" is Andrea Zanzotto. Unfortunately you plebs don't speak Italian, so you can't read him.


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John Ashbery

unironically this

Aram Saroyan too probably

Christian Bok

YES

Et Tu Babe by Mark Leyner

he's Oulipan, is Oulipan actually postmodern? I don't get a very postmodern vibe from constrained writing desu

>pic
Reminds me of this

Actual postmodern poetry, damn

pisses me off that Veeky Forums doesn't read pic related

it's everything Veeky Forums wants in a book aside from length, and is very postmodern

Postmodernism isn't even a thing.
Stop believing in retarded theories.

kurt vonnegut