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Book

The Rose Metal Press field guide to prose poetry : contemporary poets in discussion and practice

Call Number

  • 808.1 R7972 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Brookline, MA : Rose Metal Press, 2010.

Physical Description

xxix, 192 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

A gathering of 34 brief essays and 66 prose poems by contemporary practitioners.

Contents

  • On discovery : verse that is not prose, prose that is not verse
  • On influence : revelation and revolution
  • On definition : cataloging the new beasts
  • On theory : no matter what you call it
  • On craft : the music of the sentence
  • On metaphor : prose poem as more than prose poem
  • On experiment : arriving at the future.

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