The first comprehensive guide to the prose poem, this book covers the history of the genre from Aloyisius Bertrands Gaspard de la nuit and Baudelaires Paris Spleen to its most important modern and contemporary practitioners. It gives special attention to the genres 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 genres transformations and variations across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and into the next.
The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem is the first comprehensive guide to the prose poem written from an international and comparative perspective.
Mary Ann Caws works on the relations between literature and art, and is the co-editor, with Hermine Riffaterre, of The Prose Poem in France.Theory and Practice (1983). Her recent publications include Pierre Reverdy (2013), the Modern Art Cookbook (2014), Surprised in Translation (2006), Surrealism (2004), and Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason (2017). She is a Distinguished Professor Emerita and Resident Professor of English, French, and comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the past president of the Modern Language Association and the American Comparative Literature Association, the editor of the Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry and the translator of Andre? Breton, Rene? Char, Robert Desnos, Paul Eluard, Ghe?rasim Luca, Ste?phane Mallarme?, and Tristan Tzara.
