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The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre  
Author: Michel Delville
ISBN: 0813018595
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
This critical look at prose and poetry provides a historical background of the prose poem in English, and focuses on contemporary American prose poets. (Poetry)




The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Michel Delville's book is the first full-length work to provide a critical and historical survey of the American prose poem from the early years of the twentieth century to the 1990s. Delville reassesses the work of established prose poets in relation to the history of modern poetry and introduces writings by some whose work in the form has so far escaped mainstream critical attention (Sherwood Anderson, Kenneth Patchen, Russell Edson). He describes the genre's European origins and the work of several early representatives of a modern tradition of the prose lyric (Charles Baudelaire, Max Jacob, Franz Kafka, and James Joyce).

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Excellent... the only critical book on prose poetry that not only provides a historical background for the prose poem in English, but also focuses on contemporary American prose poets. — Peter Johnson

     



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