| Description |
viii, 346 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-327) and index. |
| Contents |
Introducing the prose poem -- The prose poem's post-romantic inheritance -- Prose poetry, rhythm and the city -- Ideas of open form and closure in prose poetry -- Neo-surrealism within the prose poetry tradition -- Prose poetry and timespace -- The image and memory in reading prose poetry -- Metaphor, metonymy and the prose poem -- Women and prose poetry -- Prose poetry and the very short form. |
| Summary |
Prose Poetry is an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language prose poetry, an increasingly important and popular literary form that is still too little understood and appreciated. Poets and scholars Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton introduce prose poetry's key characteristics, chart its evolution from the nineteenth century to the present, and discuss many historical and contemporary prose poems that both demonstrate their great diversity around the Anglophone world and show why they represent some of today's most inventive writing. A prose poem looks like prose but reads like poetry: it lacks the line breaks of other poetic forms but employs poetic techniques, such as internal rhyme, repetition, and compression. Prose Poetry explains how this form opens new spaces for writers to create riveting works that reshape the resources of prose while redefining the poetic. Discussing prose poetry' s precursors, including William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman, and prose poets such as Charles Simic, Russell Edson, Lydia Davis, and Claudia Rankine, the book pays equal attention to male and female prose poets, documenting women's essential but frequently unacknowledged contributions to the genre. Revealing how prose poetry tests boundaries and challenges conventions to open up new imaginative vistas, this is an essential book for all readers, students, teachers, and writers of prose poetry. |
| Subject |
Prose poems -- History and criticism.
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Prose poems. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Atherton, Cassandra L., 1974- author.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hetherington, Paul, 1958- Prose poetry Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020] 9780691212135 (DLC) 2020012472 |
| ISBN |
9780691180649 hardcover |
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0691180644 hardcover |
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9780691180656 paperback |
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0691180652 paperback |
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9780691212135 electronic book |
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