# The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem

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- Authors: [Jeremy Noel-Tod](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeremy-noel-tod)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4128-580-0
- Published: 2018-11-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'It is hard to know how it could possibly be bettered' - Daily Telegraph The prose poem has proven one of the most innovative and versatile poetic forms of recent years. In the century-and-a-half since Charles Baudelaire, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde and Ivan Turgenev spread the notion of a new kind of poetry, this 'genre with an oxymoron for a name' has attracted and beguiled many of our most beloved writers. Yet, even now, this peculiarly rich and expansive form can strike many readers as something of a mystery. Here, Jeremy Noel-Tod reconstructs the history of the prose poem for us by selecting the essential pieces of writing - by turns luminous, brooding, lamentatory and comic - which have defined and developed it at each stage, covering a greater chronological sweep and international range than any previous anthology of this kind. In The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem , Margaret Atwood rubs shoulders with Claudia Rankine; Lu Xun and Rabindranath Tagore take seats in the family tree above Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage; and Czeslaw Milosz sits just pages from Eileen Myles.