The House of Your Dream: An International Collection of Prose Poetry

by Robert Alexander (Editor), Dennis Maloney (Editor), Peter Johnson (Preface by)

Overview

The House of Your Dream: An International Collection of Prose Poetry is unique in its diversity and includes voices from Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States. Poets include Nin Andrews, Robert Bly, Aleš Debeljak, Russell Edson, Marie Harris, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Peter Johnson, Kim Kwang Kyu, Morton Marcus, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Naomi Shihab Nye, Charles Simic, Tomas Transtromer, James Wright, and many others.

Robert Alexander is a poet and editor who divides his time between southern Wisconsin and and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He is the author of White Pine Sucker River: Poems 1970-1990 and Five Forks: Waterloo of the Confederacy, a book of creative non-fiction. He is the editor of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series.

Dennis Maloney is the publisher and editor of White Pine Press.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781893996984
Publisher:	White Pine Press
Publication date:	07/01/2008
Series:	Marie Alexander Poetry Series
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	591,949
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Robert Alexander is a poet and editor who divides his time between southern Wisconsin and and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He is the author of White Pine Sucker Creek: Poems 1970-1990 and Five Forks: Waterloo of the Confederacy, a book of creative non-fiction. He is the editor of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series. Dennis Maloney is a poet, translator,and landscape architect. His books of translation include The House In the Sand and Isla Negra by pablo Neruda, The Naked Women by Juan Ramon Jimenez, and There is No Road: Proverbs of Antonio Machado. Peter Johnson is the founding editor of the Prose Poem: An International Journal and in addition to his three books of prose poems he is the author of I'm A Man, a book of short stories also published by White Pine Press. Raised in Buffalo, NY he currently teaches at Providence College in Providence, R.I.

Hometown:

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date of Birth:

August 23, 1952

Place of Birth:

Chicago, Illinois

Education:

B.A. in Russian Language and Creative Writing, Michigan State University, 1976