The Penguin book of the prose poem : from Baudelaire to Anne Carson
2018
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The last decades have seen an explosion of the prose poem. More and more writers are turning to this peculiarly rich and flexible form; it defines Claudia Rankine's 'Citizen', one of the most talked-about books of recent years, and many others, such as Sarah Howe's 'Loop of Jade' and Vahni Capildeo's 'Measures of Expatriation', make extensive use of it. Yet this fertile mode which in its time has drawn the likes of Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Seamus Heaney remains, for many contemporary readers, something of a mystery. The history of the prose poem is a long and fascinating one. Here, Jeremy Noel-Tod reconstructs it for us by selecting the essential pieces of writing.
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The Penguin book of the prose poem : from Baudelaire to Anne Carson / edited and introduced by Jeremy Noel-Tod.
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UK : Penguin Books, 2018.
Collation:
xliv, 432 pages ; 23 cm
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Includes index.
ISBN:
9780241285794 (hbk)
Dewey class:
809.1808.8'1808.81
Language:
English
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BRN:
2607686
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