Poet's Prose: The Crisis in American Verse
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 chapters, Fredman both carefully teaches us how to read these difficult works and examines their philosophical seriousness. In a final chapter and a new epilogue, he discusses the newest trends in contemporary poetry, the "talk poems" of David Antin and the prose of the Language poets, in which poet's prose forms an important aspect of the "theoretical poetry" now being written.
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Poet's Prose: The Crisis in American Verse
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 chapters, Fredman both carefully teaches us how to read these difficult works and examines their philosophical seriousness. In a final chapter and a new epilogue, he discusses the newest trends in contemporary poetry, the "talk poems" of David Antin and the prose of the Language poets, in which poet's prose forms an important aspect of the "theoretical poetry" now being written.
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Poet's Prose: The Crisis in American Verse

Poet's Prose: The Crisis in American Verse

Poet's Prose: The Crisis in American Verse

Poet's Prose: The Crisis in American Verse

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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 chapters, Fredman both carefully teaches us how to read these difficult works and examines their philosophical seriousness. In a final chapter and a new epilogue, he discusses the newest trends in contemporary poetry, the "talk poems" of David Antin and the prose of the Language poets, in which poet's prose forms an important aspect of the "theoretical poetry" now being written.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521390989
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/30/1990
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture , #44
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 214
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.63(d)

Table of Contents

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.
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