Poet's Prose: The Crisis in American Verse

by Stephen Fredman

Book Overview

Poet's Prose is the first scholarly work devoted exclusively to American prose poetry and has been recognized as a groundbreaking study in contemporary American poetry. Many recent American poets have been writing prose; Fredman has set out to determine why and what it means. 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. In these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521399947
• ISBN13: 9780521399944
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"