Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes On Contributors
Introduction
	Notes
1 Protean Manifestations and Diverse Shapes: Defining and Understanding Strategies of the Contemporary Prose Poem
	Introduction
	Fragmentation and the Prose Poem
	Speaking the Unspeakable – Mariko Nagai
	Cadence and Compression – Marc Vincenz
	The Quotidian and Contemporary – Peter Johnson
	Shape-shifting – Lauren Russell
	Conclusion
	Notes
2 Prose Poetry and the Resistance to Narrative
	Notes
3 “In the Eye of the Beholder”: Prose Poetry in Dialogue Between Reader and Poet
	Unspoken
	Notes
4 Nobody’s Storybook: Reading Russell Edson for the Wrong Reasons
	Mis-Thanking Russell Edson
	Turning Forward: How Narrative Animates the Metaphoric Process
	“The Only World That Showed Up”: The Prose Poem as Word Problem
	Foregrounding Metaphor
	“Coordinated in Endless Coincidence”: Destabilising the Poetic Subject
	Notes
5 “Borders On Edges, Where Skin Stops, Or Begins”: The Prose Poem’s Relationship With the Discourses of Fashion and Food, …
	Notes
6 The Contemporary Vernacular: Exploring Intersections of Architecture and Prose Poetry
	Conclusion
	Notes
7 “Image Machine”: Gaspar Orozco’s Book of the Peony and the Prose Poem Sequence as Perceptual Trick
	Reading Book of the Peony
	“The Endless Enigma Locked in That Flower”
	The Prose Poem Sequence as Paradoxical Form
	“The Small Model Room of the Box”
	Autocinema: “The Films of the Mind”
	Conclusion: Image Machines and Perceptual Tricks
	Notes
8 Writing the Prose Poem: An Insider’s Perspective On an Outsider Artform
	Notes
9 “A Form of Howling. A Form of Chanting. A Form of Looking Out for Each Other”: Poetics and Politics of the Contemporary ...
	Contextualising Indian-English Prose Poetry
	Kavya Or Poetic Literature: Contextualising the Prose Poem in Indian Literature
	Aspects of the Indian-English Prose Poem
	Narayanan, Life and Times of Mr. S
	Dhar, Historians of Redundant Moments
	Conclusion: “Casting Yourself Across, Casting Yourself Anew”
	Notes
10 Collaboration, Conversation, and Adaptation: The Prose Poetry Project and Renga Attitude
	Notes
11 Framing Catastrophe: The Ekphrastic Prose Poem
	Notes
12 “An Interlude Suspended”: Historical Biography Through the Lens of Prose Poetry
	Notes
13 Who Are the Contemporary Symbolists?: The Prose Poem and the Decorative-Subjective Approach
	A Provocation
	Defining Symbolism
	Playful Dalliance in the Poetry of Cassandra Atherton
	The Space as a Decorative Picture in Paul Hetherington’s Poetry
	Conclusion and Suggestions for Finding the Decorative-Subjective Space in Practice
	Notes
14 One Foot; Many Places: The Prose Poem’s Art of Standing Still While Travelling
	Notes
Bibliography
Index