Poet's Prose
The Crisis in American Verse
2nd Edition
Part of Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
- Author: Stephen Fredman, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
- Editor: Albert Gelpi, Stanford University, California
- Date Published: February 1991
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521390989
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Poet's Prose is the first scholarly work devoted exclusively to American prose poetry and has been recognised as a pioneering study in contemporary American poetry. Many recent American poets have been writing prose; Fredman has set out to determine why and what it means. Three central works of American poets' prose are discussed in detail: William Carlos Williams' Kora in Hell, Robert Creeley's Presences, and John Ashbery's Three Poems. In these chapters, Fredman both demonstrates how to read these difficult works and examines their philosophical seriousness. In a final chapter and a new epilogue, he discusses the newest trends in contemporary poetry, the 'talk poems' of David Antin and the prose of the Language poets, in which poet's prose forms an important aspect of the 'theoretical poetry' now being written.
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: February 1991
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521390989
- length: 214 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.43kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. The generative sentence: William Carlos Williams's Kora in Hell: Improvisations
2. 'A life tracking itself': Robert Creeley's Presences: A Test for Marisol
3. 'He chose to include': John Ashbery's Three Poems
4. The crisis at present: talk poems and the new poet's prose
Notes
Index.
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