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Title:
Great American prose poems : from Poe to the present / edited by David Lehman.
Author:
Lehman, David, 1948-
Publication Information:
New York : Scribner Poetry, c2003.
Call Number:
PS593 .P75 G73 2003
Abstract:
Presents a collection of prose poems by American authors, arranged chronologically, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jenny Boully, and including an explanation of the origins and characteristics of a prose poems.
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ISBN:
9780743229890

9780743243506
Physical Description:
346 p. ; 22 cm.
General Note:
Table of contents available online at publisher's Web site.

Includes indexes.
Contents:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 -- Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849 -- Emma Lazarus, 1849-1887 -- Amy Lowell, 1874-1925 -- Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946 -- William Carlos Williams, 1883-1963 -- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961 -- T.S. Eliot, 1888-1965 -- Jean Toomer, 1894-1967 -- Thornton Wilder, 1897-1975 -- Hart Crane, 1899-1932 -- Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961 -- Ruth Krauss, 1901-1993 -- Edwin Denby, 1903-1983 -- W.H. Auden, 1911-1979 -- Elizabeth Bishop, 1911-1979 -- Czeslaw Milosz, 1911- -- Kenneth Patchen, 1911-1972 -- Delmore Schwartz, 1913-1966 -- David Ignatow, 1914-1997 -- Barbara Guest, 1920- -- James Schuyler, 1923-1991 -- Kenneth Koch, 1925-2002 -- Robert Bly, 1926 -- Allen Ginsberg, 1926-1997 -- James Merrill, 1926-1995 -- Frank O'Hara, 1926-1966 -- John Ashberry, 1927- -- W.S. Merwin, 1927- -- James Wright, 1927-1980 -- John Hollander, 1929- -- Harry Mathews, 1930- -- Mark Strand, 1934- -- Michael Benedikt, 1935- -- Russell Edson, 1935- -- Rosmarie Waldrop, 1935- -- Charles Simic, 1938- -- Margaret Atwood, 1939- -- Frank Bidart, 1939- -- Fanny Howe, 1940- -- Tom Clark, 1941- -- Billy Collins, 1941- -- Robert Hass, 1941- -- Lyn Hejinian, 1941- -- Joe Brainard, 1942-1994 -- Louis Jenkins, 1942- -- Ron Padgett, 1942- -- Michael Palmer, 1943- -- James Tate, 1943- -- Paul Violi, 1944- -- John Godfrey, 1945- -- Bernadette Mayer, 1945- -- Alice Notley, 1945- -- Ira Sadoff, 1945- -- Anne Waldman, 1945- -- Terence Winch, 1945- -- B.J. Atwood-Fukuda, 1946- -- Andrei Codrescu, 1946- -- Rae Armantrout, 1947- -- Michael Burkard, 1947- -- Lydia Davis, 1947- -- Aaron Fogel, 1947- -- Yusef Komunyakaa, 1947- -- Maureen Seaton, 1947- -- Leslie Scalapino, 1948- -- Tom Whalen, 1948- -- Agha Shahid Ali, 1949-2001 -- Lynn Emanuel, 1949- -- Kit Robinson, 1949- -- Charles Bernstein, 1950- -- Anne Carson, 1950- -- Carolyn Forché, 1950- -- James Richardson, 1950- -- John Yau, 1950- -- Peter Johnson, 1951- -- Maxine Chernoff, 1952- -- Rita Dove, 1952- -- Carla Harryman, 1952- -- Mark Jarman, 1952- -- Mary Ruefle, 1952- -- Killarney Clary, 1953- -- Fran Carlen, 1954- -- Thylias Moss, 1954- -- Tyrone Williams, 1954- -- Harryette Mullen, ?- -- Susan Wheeler, 1955- -- April Bernard, 1956- -- Amy Gerstler, 1956- -- Dionisio D. Martínez, 1956- -- Catherine Bowman, 1957- -- Wang Ping, 1957- -- Nin Andrews, 1958- -- Michael Friedman, 1960- -- Stephanie Brown, 1961- -- Denise Duhamel, 1961- -- Christopher Edgar, 1961- -- Campbell McGrath, 1962- -- Linh Dinh, 1963- -- Claudia Rankine, 1963- -- Gabriel Gudding, 1966- -- Joe Wenderoth, 1966- -- Lisa Jarno, 1967- -- Karen Volkman, 1967- -- Mark Bibbins, 1968- -- Richard Blanco, 1968- -- Jennifer L. Knox, 1968- -- Richard Deming, 1970- -- Anselm Berrigan, 1972- -- Katherine Lederer, 1972- -- Andrew Zawacki, 1972- -- Jamey Dunham, 1973- -- Matthea Harvey, 1973- -- Sarah Manguso, 1974- -- Jenny Boully, 1976-.
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