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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. The Generative Sentence: William Carlos Williams's Kora In Hell: Improvisations -- 'a Life Tracking Itself': Robert Creeley's Presences: A Test For Marisol -- 'he Chose To Include': John Ashbery's Three Poems -- The Crisis At Present: Talk Poems And The New Poet's Prose Stephen Fredman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 162-189) And Index.

Author
Stephen Fredman; Albert Gelpi
Publisher
Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York: Cambridge University Press
Published
1990
Language
EN
ISBN
9780521390989
Subjects
Literary Fiction, History, Poetry

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