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The house of your dream : an international collection of prose poetry / edited by Robert Alexander & Dennis Maloney ; introduction by Peter Johnson.

Title
The house of your dream : an international collection of prose poetry / edited by Robert Alexander & Dennis Maloney ; introduction by Peter Johnson.
Publication
Buffalo, N.Y. : White Pine Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Alexander, Robert (Robert E.), 1949-
  • Maloney, Dennis.
Description
192 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"The work of ninety poets from around the world makes The House of Your Dream unique in its diversity. Well-known poets such as Robert Bly, James Wright, Pablo Neruda, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gabriela Mistral, Charles Simic, and David Ignatow share these pages with poets, including Nin Andrews, Kim Chinquee, Killarney Clary, Mary Koncel, Peter Johnson and Peter Conners, who came late in the evolution of prose poetry and have always written most of their work in the prose poem form. The variety of themes and styles clearly show the prose poems to be, as Russell Edson said, like "a cast-iron aeroplane ... that seems to fly because its pilot dreams ... ""--Jacket.
Series Statement
Marie Alexander poetry series ; v. 11
Uniform Title
Marie Alexander poetry series ; no. 11.
Subject
Prose poems
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781893996984
  • 1893996980
LCCN
^^2008929956