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The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson

The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson

Noel-Tod, Jeremy
Noel-Tod, Jeremy

Paperback

Poetry AnthologiesPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0141984562
ISBN13: 9780141984568
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Jul 14 2020
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.60
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
An essential anthology that puts contemporary geniuses Eileen Myles and Margaret Atwood in conversation with literary classics Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde about the liberating and unique combination of poetry and prose

A Penguin Classic

The prose poem has proven one of the most innovative and versatile poetic forms of recent years. In the century-and-a-half since Charles Baudelaire, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde and Ivan Turgenev spread the notion of a new kind of poetry, this genre with an oxymoron for a name has attracted many of our most beloved writers. Yet, even now, this peculiarly rich and expansive form is still misunderstood and overlooked. Here, Jeremy Noel-Tod reconstructs the history of the prose poem for us by selecting the essential pieces of writing, covering a greater chronological sweep and international range than any previous anthology of its kind. Noel-Tod even calls it an alternative history of modern poetry. In The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, Patricia Lockwood and Claudia Rankine rub shoulders with Margaret Atwood and Adrienne Rich; Allen Ginsberg and Gertrude Stein appear with Lu Xun and Jorge Luis; Czeslaw Milosz sits just pages from Eileen Myles.

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