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The French Prose Poem:an anthology
[Paperback - 2025]
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Poetry
Publisher: Nyrb Poets | ISBN: 9781681377322 | Pages: 288
Shipping Weight: .369 | Dimensions: 4.5 x x 7 inches
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The first English-language collection of its kind, this anthology offers an overview of the past and present history of a long-underappreciated—and now quickly burgeoning—poetic tradition.

For decades, the prose poem has variously delighted, confounded, and incensed readers and critics. Until recent years, it had been confined to the margins of literary history as a rather disturbing and elusive oddity. All this is changing.

The prose poem, which has long been neglected and underrepresented in mainstream and experimental publications alike, is growing in popularity in the world of contemporary poetry. It is more widely available than ever before, thanks to the joint efforts of an ever-increasing number of imaginative writers, publishers, and editors. And still, this volume is the first anthology of the French prose poem to see the light in the English-speaking world.

This anthology gathers a wide range of poets practicing what Michael Riffaterre memorably called “the literary genre with an oxymoron for a name,” from the prose poem’s official “inventors” (Aloysius Bertrand and Charles Baudelaire) to a younger generation of poets from all over the French-speaking world. The poems in this bilingual collection have been rendered into English by some of the finest translators of French literature, including John Ashbery, Mark Polizzotti, Richard Sieburth, Rosmarie Waldrop, and many others.

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