The American prose poem
Subtitle: poetic form and the boundaries of genre
By: Michel Delville.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Prose poems, American -- History and criticism; Literary form; Poetics
Description: Michel Delville's book is the first full-length work to provide a critical and historical survey of the American prose poem from the early years of the twentieth century to the 1990s.

Delville reassesses the work of established prose poets in relation to the history of modern poetry and introduces writings by some whose work in the form has so far escaped mainstream critical attention (Sherwood Anderson, Kenneth Patchen, Russell Edson). He describes the genre's European origins and the work of several early representatives of a modern tradition of the prose lyric (Charles Baudelaire, Max Jacob, Franz Kafka, and James Joyce).
Notes: Includes bibliographical (p. [269]-282) references and index.