Title: The American prose poem
First published: 1998
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).
Subjects: Literary form, Poetics, History and criticism, Prose poems, American, American Prose poems, American poetry, history and criticism, American prose literature, history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM, Poetry, English, Languages & Literatures, American Literature
LC classification: PS309.P67 D45 1998