The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry

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224 pages 2010

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A collection of 34 short essays and 66 prose poems which discusses the authors' craft, influences, and experiences of writing prose poetry. This collection provides a history of the development of the prose poem up to the current day. For readers and writers of poetry, and for students and teachers of creative writing.

The essays are grouped into seven sections:

- On Discovery: Verse that is not prose, prose that is not verse
- On Influence: Revelation and Revolution
- On Definition: Cataloging the New Beasts
- On Theory: No matter what you call it
- On Craft: The music of the sentence
- On Metaphor: Prose poem as more than prose poem
- On Experiment: Arriving at the future

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