Family Portrait: American Prose Poetry 1900 - 1950

Herausgeber: Alexander, Robert

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Produktbeschreibung

Family Portrait doesn't just rewrite the history of the prose poem in America - it sets the record straight.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: White Pine Press (NY)
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781935210351
• ISBN-10: 1935210351
• Artikelnr.: 35428008

Autorenporträt

Robert Alexander is the co-editor of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series. He is the author of two books of poetry, White Pine Sucker River and What the Raven Said; and a book of creative nonfiction, Five Forks: Waterloo of the Confederacy. He previously served as an associate editor at New Rivers Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Editor
s Note Margueritte Murphy Introduction: The Prose Poem as a Modernist Genre Virginia Admiral (1915-2000) The Escaped Bear Margaret Anderson (1886-1973) Ocean Aquarium Landscape Imagism Toward Revolution Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) The Cornfields Song of the Soul of Chicago The Lame One Sister Holly Beye (1922-2011) For the Singer That is Gone In the Eucalyptus Forest Faces in a Furious Night The Unremitting Stain The Release of Hostages Some New Notches with an Old Knife Paul Bowles (1910-1999) from No Village Kay Boyle (1902-1992) Summer January 1, U.S.A. January 24, New York from For An American Emily Holmes Coleman (1899-1974) The Wren
s Nest Harry Crosby (1898-1929) Embrace Me You Said Mosquito Ovid
s Flea I Had No Idea What They Would Do Next In Search of the Young Wizard Human Flesh and Golden Apples White Clover Golden Spoon White Slipper E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
i was sitting in mcsorley
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at the ferocious phenomenon of 5 öclock
Harriet Dean (1892-1964) Debutante Barn-Yarding Departure H. D. (1886-1961) from Four Prose Choruses Robert Duncan (1919-1988) At Home Correspondences Source Unkingd by Affection Concerning the Maze T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) Hysteria The Engine Mary Fabill (1914-2011) The Morning Led They in Whose Dreams This Is the Day of Freedom Poem William Faulkner (1897-1962) The Priest Frankie and Johnny The Cobbler Magdalen John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950) The Death of England The Secret of Mars The Way of Dust The End of Job Charles Henri Ford (1913-2002) Suite Flag of Ecstasy Message to Rimbaud Jane Heap (1883-1964) Sketches Paris at One Time Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) from In Our Time Fenton Johnson (1888-1958) African Nights Amy Lowell (1874-1925) Bath Breakfast Table Walk Midday and Afternoon Robert McAlmon (1896-1956) Village Fire Bug The Artificial Lake Ploughed Land History of the Early Twentieth Century History Professor Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) Polly
An Almost-True Story Family Portrait O What a Revolution There Are Two When We Were Here Together A Pasturized Scene Laura Riding (1901-1991) William and Daisy: Fragment of a Finished Novel Hungry to Hear In a Café Edouard Roditi (1910-1992) Metamorphosis Séance Old Wives Tale Hand from The Pathos of History Robert Alden Sanborn (1877-1962) The Billiard Players At the Elite Alleys Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) A Piano In Between A Sound Suppose An Eyes A Long Dress Colored Hats A Substance in a Cushion Jean Toomer (1894-1967) Calling Jesus Rhobert Karintha Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) Sentences William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) The Delicacies from Kora in Hell A Matisse Theessentialroar from For Bill Bird Verbal Transcription
6 A. M. The Pace that Kills Exultation Afterword Contributors
Notes Sources Acknowledgments ?