The Penguin book of the prose poem : from Baudelaire to Anne Carson
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London : Penguin Books, 2018.
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9780241285794, 0241285798, 9780141984568, 0141984562
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Published
London : Penguin Books, 2018.
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Book
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xliv, 432 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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9780241285794, 0241285798, 9780141984568, 0141984562

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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 by turns luminous, brooding, lamentatory and comic which have defined and developed the form at each stage, from its beginnings in 19th-century France, through the 20th-century traditions of Britain and America and beyond the English language, to the great wealth of material written internationally since 2000. Comprehensively told, it yields one of the most original and genre-changing anthologies to be published for some years, and offers readers the chance to discover a diverse range of new poets and new kinds of poem, while also meeting famous names in an unfamiliar guise.

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Noel-Tod, J. (2018). The Penguin book of the prose poem: from Baudelaire to Anne Carson . Penguin Books.

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Noel-Tod, Jeremy. 2018. The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson. Penguin Books.

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