Poet''s Prose - The Crisis in American Verse

Zusammenfassung 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. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Fredman
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.1990
• EAN: 9780521399944
• ISBN: 978-0-521-39994-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies