Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: Prose and the American crisis of verse
- 1 The generative sentence: William Carlos Williams's Kora in Hell: Improvisations
- 2 “A life tracking itself”: Robert Creeley's Presences: A Test for Marisol
- 3 “He chose to include”: John Ashbery's Three Poems
- 4 The crisis at present: talk poems and the new poet's prose
- Notes
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 April 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: Prose and the American crisis of verse
- 1 The generative sentence: William Carlos Williams's Kora in Hell: Improvisations
- 2 “A life tracking itself”: Robert Creeley's Presences: A Test for Marisol
- 3 “He chose to include”: John Ashbery's Three Poems
- 4 The crisis at present: talk poems and the new poet's prose
- Notes
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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- Poet's ProseThe Crisis in American Verse, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990