Prose poetry : an introduction / by Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Introducing the prose poem -- 2. The prose poem's post-romantic inheritance -- 3. Prose poetry, rhythm and the city -- 4. Ideas of open form and closure in prose poetry -- 5. Neo-surrealism within the prose poetry tradition -- 6. Prose poetry and timespace -- 7. The image and memory in reading prose poetry -- 8. Metaphor, metonymy and the prose poem -- 9. Women and prose poetry -- 10 .Prose poetry and the short form

This is the first book of its kind — an 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. The book introduces prose poetry's key characteristics, charts its evolution from the nineteenth-century to the present, and discusses 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. The book 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.

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