Ebook: The Penguin book of the prose poem: from Baudelaire to Anne Carson

The clerk's vision / Octavio Paz -- Around the star's throne / Hans Arp -- The god of war / Bertolt Brecht -- The swift / René Char -- Phrase / Aimé Césaire -- Street cries / Luis Cernuda -- Rain / Francis Ponge -- The pleasures of the door / Francis Ponge -- Crate / Francis Ponge -- from Vigils / John Lehmann -- Nijinksi / George Seferis -- The right meaning / César Vallejo -- Blue notebook, no. 10 / Daniil Kharms -- Bourgeois news / Charles Madge -- Lozanne / David Gasgoyne -- In praise of glass / Gabriela Mistral -- from The orators / W.H. Auden -- My occupations / Henri Michaux -- Force of habit / André Breton and Paul Eluard -- Sunflowers are already black gunpowder / Anzai Fuye -- The dog's retort / Lu Xun -- Snow / Lu Xun -- Son / Saint-John Perse -- Hell is graduated / Max Jacob -- A day / Rabindranath Tagore -- from Kora in hell: improvisations / William Carlos Williams -- Tired / Fenton Johnson -- Pulmonary tuberculosis / Katherine Mansfield -- Hysteria / T.S. Eliot -- Spring day / Amy Lowell -- The moon / Juan Ramón Jiménez -- London notes / Jessie Dismoor -- Street circus / Pierre Reverdy -- from Tender buttons / Gertrude Stein -- Winter night / Georg Trakl -- from Scented leaves- from a Chinese jar / Allen Upward -- Painting / Paul Claudel -- Absinthia taetra / Ernest Dowson -- The pipe / Stéphane Mallarmé -- The disciple / Oscar Wilde -- The master / Oscar Wilde -- from By the waters of Babylon / Emma Lazarus -- After the flood / Arthur Rimbaud -- Sideshow / Arthur Rimbaud -- Genie / Arthur Rimbaud -- The end of the world / Ivan Turgenev -- On the sea / Ivan Turgenev -- The stranger / Charles Beaudelaire -- Windows / Charles Beaudelaire -- The bad glazier / Charles Beaudelaire -- The madman / Aloysius Bertrand -- The mason / Aloysius Bertrand -- Haarlem / Aloysius Bertrand.;The expansion of the prose poem / Jeremy Noel-Tod -- The end of days / Golan Haji -- Merry Christmas from Hegel / Anne Carson -- Going nowhere, getting somewhere / Vahni Capildeo -- Children are the orgasm of the world / Hera Lindsay Bird -- Antico Adagio / Peter Gizzi -- Knife / Rod Mengham -- A woman shopping / Anne Boyer -- Notes towards a race riot scene / Bhanu Kapil -- "There were barnacles..." / Sarah Howe -- from Letter against the firmament / Sean Bonney -- from Citizen: an American lyric / Claudia Rankine -- My funeral / Peter Manson -- Flower, quarter, mask / John Fuller -- Reclaiming a beloved city / Clifton Gachague -- Imagined sons 9 : Greek salad / Carrie Etter -- Place name : flog man / Kei Miller -- Rape joke / Patricia Lockwood -- from Fairies / Mei-mei Berssenbrugge -- from Mystériuses / Éric Suchère -- Some fears / Emily Berry -- from Odes to TL61P / Keston Sutherland -- The mysterious arrival of an unusual letter / Mark Strand -- Chicken / Cathy Wagner -- Birthweights / Chris McCabe -- Other things / Alvin Pang -- from Adventures in Shangdu / Cathy Park Hong -- Cry break / Paige Ackerson-Kiely -- Short prayer to sound / Vivek Narayana -- Homeless heart / John Ashbery -- Black sunlight / D.S. Marriott -- Nightmare pink / Elena Penga -- Conversations about home (at the deportation centre) / Warsan Shire -- O elegant giant / Laura Kasischke -- Via negativa / Jane Monson -- The experience / Simon Armitage -- Folkways / Anthony Joseph -- from Virtual airport / Matthew Welton -- Photographs, undeveloped / Ágnes Lehóczky -- from Folklore / Tim Atkins -- Edith / Sophie Robinson -- The wren / Jen Hadfield -- from Bird bird / Jeff Hilson -- The hornsman / Bill Griffiths -- from The idylls / Maurice Riordan -- Blue dog / Luke Kennard -- If / Sina Queyras -- Fiddleheads / Seamus Heaney --;The first week of mourning / Shang Qin -- The dogs / Yves Bonnefoy -- from My life / Lyn Hejinian -- The souvenir / Dan Pagis -- A walk through the museum / Ánges Nemes Nagy -- Hearts / Laurie Duggan -- The land of counterpane / Lee Harwwod -- from C / Peter Reading -- Many musicians practice their mysteries while I am cooking / Bink Noll -- Or else / Christopher Middleton -- abglanz / reflected gleam / Wulf Kirsten -- Honey / James Wright -- A vernacular tale / Peter Didsbury -- The colonel / Carolyn Forché -- Meeting Ezra Pound / Miroslav Holub -- Goodtime Jesus / James Tate -- Vanity, Wisconsin / Maxine Chernoff -- Gay full story / Bernadette Mayer -- from Logbook / Tom Raworth -- The colors of night / N. Scott Momaday -- Portrait of A.E. (an artful fairy tale) / Elke Erb -- Chile / Ottó Orbán -- Scissors / Shuntarö Tanikawa -- A caterpillar / Robert Bly -- Cloistered / Seamus Heaney -- Ape / Russel Edson -- from The wild rose / Ken Smith -- Chimes of silence / Wole Soyinka -- from Mercian hymns / Geoffrey Hill -- from Shooting script / Adrienne Rich -- The bookcase / Tomas Tranströmer -- For John Clare / John Ashberty -- Milk / James Schuyler -- from it / Inger Christensen -- A case / Gael Turnbull -- An old-fashioned traveller on the trade routes / Rosemary Tonks -- Strayed crab / Elizabeth Bishop -- The flag / Pablo Neruda -- Vocabulary / Wisława Szymborska -- Catherine of Siena / Elizabeth Jennings -- from City / Roy Fisher -- Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges -- from Letters to James Alexander / Jack Spicer -- Hermes, dog and star / Zbigniew Herbert -- Where the tennis court was ... / Eugenio Montale -- A supermarket in California / Alan Ginsberg -- Clock / Pierre Reverdy -- Meditations in an emergency / Frank O'Hara -- Love letter to King Tutankhamun / Dulce María Loynaz --;The last decades have seen an explosion of the prose poem. More and more writers are turning to this peculiarly rich and flexible form; it defines Claudia Rankine's Citizen, one of the most talked-about books of recent years, and many others, such as Sarah Howe's Loop of Jade and Vahni Capildeo's Measures of Expatriation, make extensive use of it. Yet this fertile mode which in its time has drawn the likes of Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Seamus Heaney remains, for many contemporary readers, something of a mystery. The history of the prose poem is a long and fascinating one. Here, Jeremy Noel-Tod reconstructs it for us by selecting the essential pieces of writing by turns luminous, brooding, lamentatory and comic which have defined and developed the form at each stage, from its beginnings in 19th-century France, through the 20th-century traditions of Britain and America and beyond the English language, to the great wealth of material written internationally since 2000. Comprehensively told, it yields one of the most original and genre-changing anthologies to be published for some years, and offers readers the chance to discover a diverse range of new poets and new kinds of poem, while also meeting famous names in an unfamiliar guise.;Captain of the lighthouse / Togara Muzanenhamo -- from Angle of yaw / Ben Lerner -- The phases of the moon in London / Amjad Nasser -- Corruption / Srikanth Reddy -- from echolocatin / Mani Rao -- from Chapter E / Christian Bök -- Denigration / Harryette Mullen -- A hardworking peasant from the idyllic countryside / Linh Dinh -- Ted's head / Rod Smith -- Hosea: a commentary / Charles Boyle -- The skull ring / Chelsey Minnis -- from The weather / Lisa Robertson -- Ode / Lisa Jarnot -- from Letters to Wendy's / Joe Wenderoth -- The most sensual room / Masayo Koike -- The cough / Barbara Guest -- Cinema-going / Ian Hamilton Finlay -- from Joan of Arc / Nathalie Quintane -- Neglected knives / Kritín Ómarsdóttir -- Little corona / Don Paterson -- Seoul's dinner / Kim Hyesoon -- Christopher Robin / Czesław Miłosz -- Returns to harmony 3 / Agha Shahid Ali -- Thought (I) / Esther Jansma -- The poet / Eileen Myles -- Prose poem / Ron Padgett -- from Kuchh Vakya / Udayan Vajpeyi -- from Lawn of excluded middle / Rosmarie Waldrop -- The word-gulag / Abdellatif Laâbi -- Dustie-fute / David Kinloch -- dropped on the ground · the small coin / Zhou Yaping -- from Short talks / Anne Carson -- In love with Raymond Chandler / Margaret Atwood -- Letters / Clark Coolidge -- What no one could have told them / C.D. Wright -- An anointing / Thylias Moss -- Man with a mower / Jenny Bornholdt -- Deer dancer / Joy Harjo -- from The stumbling block its index / Brian Catling -- Chekhov: a sestina / Mark Strand -- Inflation / Carol Rumens -- Quaker oats / Rita Dove -- from The world doesn't end / Charles Simic -- Human wishes / Robert Hass -- Burnt hair / Meena Alexander -- The Hanoi market / Yusef Komunyakaa -- reading / joanne burns --