A collection of original essays providing critical, international and cross-disciplinary approaches to the prose poem
The first comprehensive guide to the prose poem, this book covers the history of the genre from Aloysius Bertrand's Gaspard de la nuit and Baudelaire's Paris Spleen to its most important modern and contemporary practitioners. It gives special attention to the genre's hybridity as well as to its propensity to engage in a dialogue with other genres, discourses and artistic forms. Written by prominent scholars of modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem offers analytical and historically informed narratives of the genre's transformations and variations across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and into the next.
Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor Emerita and Resident Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York. She is the author of Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism.
Michel Delville is Professor of English, American and Comparative Literature at the University of Liège. He is the author of The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre.
Über den Autor Mary Ann (Hrsg.) 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 académiques 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, also available from NYRB Poets.Michel Delville is a Belgian musician, writer, and critic. He teaches English and American literature at the University of Liège, 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 Léon Guérin Prize.