Prose PoetryAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Tuesday 13 October 2020
Description
An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genreProse Poetry is the first book of its kindâ?"an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language prose poetry, an increasingly important and popular literary form that is still too little understood and appreciated. Poets and scholars Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton introduce prose poetryâ?Ts key characteristics, chart its evolution from the nineteenth century to the present, and discuss many historical and contemporary prose poems that both demonstrate their great diversity around the Anglophone world and show why they represent some of todayâ?Ts most inventive writing. A prose poem looks like prose but reads like poetry: it lacks the line breaks of other poetic forms but employs poetic techniques, such as internal rhyme, repetition, and compression. Prose Poetry explains how this form opens new spaces for writers to create riveting works that reshape the resources of prose while redefining the poetic. Discussing prose poetryâ?T s precursors, including William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman, and prose poets such as Charles Simic, Russell Edson, Lydia Davis, and Claudia Rankine, the book pays equal attention to male and female prose poets, documenting womenâ?Ts essential but frequently unacknowledged contributions to the genre. Revealing how prose poetry tests boundaries and challenges conventions to open up new imaginative vistas, this is an essential book for all readers, students, teachers, and writers of prose poetry.
You may also like ...
by
Hardback
13 Oct 2020
Creative writing and creative writing guides
€117.00
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
13 Oct 2020
Creative writing and creative writing guides
€22.22
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
28 Jun 2024
Poetry
€29.19
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
28 Jun 2024
Poetry
€19.83
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews