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Family Portrait doesn't just rewrite the history of the prose poem in America - it sets the record straight.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
Margueritte Murphy
Introduction: The Prose Poem as a Modernist Genre
Virginia Admiral (1915-2000)
The Escaped Bear
Margaret Anderson (1886-1973)
Ocean Aquarium
Landscape
Imagism
Toward Revolution
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
The Cornfields
Song of the Soul of Chicago
The Lame One
Sister
Holly Beye (1922-2011)
For the Singer That is Gone
In the Eucalyptus Forest
Faces in a Furious Night
The Unremitting Stain
The Release of Hostages
Some New Notches with an Old Knife
Paul Bowles (1910-1999)
from No Village
Kay Boyle (1902-1992)
Summer
January 1, U.S.A.
January 24, New York
from For An American
Emily Holmes Coleman (1899-1974)
The Wren’s Nest
Harry Crosby (1898-1929)
Embrace Me You Said
Mosquito
Ovid’s Flea
I Had No Idea What They Would Do Next
In Search of the Young Wizard
Human Flesh and Golden Apples
White Clover
Golden Spoon
White Slipper
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
“i was sitting in mcsorley’s”
“at the ferocious phenomenon of 5 o’clock”
Harriet Dean (1892-1964)
Debutante
Barn-Yarding
Departure
H. D. (1886-1961)
from Four Prose Choruses
Robert Duncan (1919-1988)
At Home
Correspondences
Source
Unkingd by Affection
Concerning the Maze
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Hysteria
The Engine
Mary Fabill (1914-2011)
The Morning Led
They in Whose Dreams
This Is the Day of Freedom
Poem
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
The Priest
Frankie and Johnny
The Cobbler
Magdalen
John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950)
The Death of England
The Secret of Mars
The Way of Dust
The End of Job
Charles Henri Ford (1913-2002)
Suite
Flag of Ecstasy
Message to Rimbaud
Jane Heap (1883-1964)
Sketches
Paris at One Time
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
from In Our Time
Fenton Johnson (1888-1958)
African Nights
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
Bath
Breakfast Table
Walk
Midday and Afternoon
Robert McAlmon (1896-1956)
Village
Fire Bug
The Artificial Lake
Ploughed Land
History of the Early Twentieth Century
History Professor
Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)
Polly—An Almost-True Story
Family Portrait
O What a Revolution
There Are Two
When We Were Here Together
A Pasturized Scene
Laura Riding (1901-1991)
William and Daisy: Fragment of a Finished Novel
Hungry to Hear
In a Café
Edouard Roditi (1910-1992)
Metamorphosis
Séance
Old Wives Tale
Hand
from The Pathos of History
Robert Alden Sanborn (1877-1962)
The Billiard Players
At the Elite
Alleys
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
A Piano
In Between
A Sound
Suppose An Eyes
A Long Dress
Colored Hats
A Substance in a Cushion
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
Calling Jesus
Rhobert
Karintha
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
Sentences
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
The Delicacies
from Kora in Hell
A Matisse
Theessentialroar
from For Bill Bird
Verbal Transcription—6 A. M.
The Pace that Kills
Exultation
Afterword
Contributors’ Notes
Sources
Acknowledgments
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Über den Autor / die Autorin
Robert Alexander is the co-editor of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series. He is the author of two books of poetry, White Pine Sucker River and What the Raven Said; and a book of creative nonfiction, Five Forks: Waterloo of the Confederacy. He previously served as an associate editor at New Rivers Press.
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Family Portrait doesn't just rewrite the history of the prose poem in America - it sets the record straight.
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We are working to place the introduction and afterword in academic publications.
We will do a special push for review attention in academic journals including: Choice, Higher Education, the Chronicle of Education and others.
The anthology includes a strong academic introduction from Margueritte Murphy which will make it an essential text for courses studying the prose poem
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