TY - BOOK AU - Hetherington,Paul AU - Atherton,Cassandra TI - Prose Poetry: An Introduction SN - 9780691212135 AV - PN1059.P76 H48 2020 U1 - 821.009 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Princeton, NJ PB - Princeton University Press KW - Prose poems KW - History and criticism KW - Prose poems, American KW - Prose poems, English KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry KW - bisacsh KW - American poetry KW - Baudelaire KW - France KW - French KW - Macpherson KW - Ossian KW - analysis KW - box KW - contemporary prose poetry KW - digital media KW - famous prose poems KW - famous prose poets KW - flaneur KW - fragment KW - guidebook KW - handbook KW - how is prose poetry different from poetry KW - how to interpret prose poetry KW - how to read prose poetry KW - neo surreal KW - neo surrealism KW - postmodern writing KW - romantic fragment KW - surrealism KW - surrealists KW - symbolism KW - symbolists KW - what is difference between prose poetry and poetry KW - what is prose poetry KW - who writes prose poetry N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; PART 1 BEGINNINGS --; CHAPTER 1 Introducing the Prose Poem --; CHAPTER 2 The Prose Poem’s Post-Romantic Inheritance --; CHAPTER 3 Prose Poetry, Rhythm, and the City --; PART 2 AGAINST CONVENTION --; CHAPTER 4 Ideas of Open Form and Closure in Prose Poetry --; CHAPTER 5 Neo-Surrealism within the Prose Poetry Tradition --; CHAPTER 6 Prose Poetry and TimeSpace --; PART 3 METHODS AND CONTEXTS --; CHAPTER 7 The Image and Memory in Reading Prose Poetry --; CHAPTER 8 Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Prose Poem --; CHAPTER 9 Women and Prose Poetry --; CHAPTER 10 Prose Poetry and the Very Short Form --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genreProse Poetry is the first book of its kind—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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691212135?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691212135 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691212135/original ER -