An essential collection of prose poems from across the globe, by old masters and new, reveals the form’s astonishing range You might think of a prose poem as a bastardised form – neither one thing nor ...

Perhaps since Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, poets have been using prose to understand how poems and poetry work. Something about the procedures of prose, its civilities and solidity, ...

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American prose poetry—a tradition extending from Robert Bly to Lyn Hejinian—has finally come into its own. Although prose poems defy easy classification—they are, as the name indicates, neither ...