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This is a ground breaking collection of early 20th century prose poetry that assembles this compelling work for the first time and includes a scholarly introduction to the writers and the period.

The anthology includes such well-known figures as Sherwood Anderson, Paul Bowles, Kay Boyle, e.e. cummings, H.D., Robert Duncan, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Earnest Hemingway, Amy Lowell, Kenneth Patchen, Laura Riding Jackson, Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, Thorton Wilder and William Carlos Williams with work that is not readily available including some never collected in book publication.

The prose poem remains a vital form in American poetry but most writers assume the form starts in the 60s with writers like Bly and Edson.

This anthology will become an essential college text for those studying the prose poem and its evolution in the United States.