Poet's Prose

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521390982
• ISBN13: 9780521390989
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"