The French Prose Poem
An Anthology
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2025
Summary
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 underrepre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681377322 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681377322 |
| Author: | Mary Ann Caws, Michel Delville |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Poets |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm |
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About The Author
Mary Ann Caws
Mary Ann Caws is a scholar of English, French, and comparative literature and serves as Distinguished Professor Emerita at the graduate school of the City University of New York. Caws is an Officier of Ordre des Palmes academiques and Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, and a former Trustee of the Alliance Francaise. She has translated numerous works from the French and is the editor of Pierre Reverdy.
Michel Delville is a Belgian musician, writer, and critic. He teaches English and American literature at the University of Li ge, where he also directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics. His awards and distinctions include the 1998 SAMLA Book Award, the Choice Outstanding Book Award, and the Leon Guerin Prize.
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