Prose Poetry and the City (Illuminations: A American Poetics)

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In this fascinating book Donna Stonecipher doubles down on the development of prose poetry and the city. Tactically her sweeping complex yet meticulous essay engages Baudelaires sudden--or is it sudden?--incursion from the constraints of verse into the roominess of prose paragraphs of place while linking civic horizontality and corporate verticality. Tracking possibilities (m)using everything from architecture to landscape to cookbooks flÂneur-like her essay exuberantly and expertly gathers together rhizomatic threads of thinkers and poets of the last two centuries. Reads like a song. --Norma ColeThis fascinating exploration of the prose poem begins with a question that most other studies have overlooked or taken for granted: What if anything do cities and prose poetry have to do with each other? Donna Stoneciphers touchstone for this question is Charles Baudelaires prose poems in Le Spleen de Paris but her excavation of the relationship between the built environment of prose poem and city moves backwards to ancient Greece and forwards to the new sentence. As Stonecipher unpacks the dialogic space of the prose poem her essay moves vertically and horizontally providing histories of the skyscraper and the aesthetics and ethics of vertical ascension and much else. As she moves nimbly through large swaths of intellectual architectural urban and aesthetic history Stonecipher engages debates central to poetics and to modernity itself taking seriously the challenge of considering how aesthetic forms register respond to and transform their built social and historical environments. An indispensable and enlightening guide that is also a pleasure to read. --Susan RosenbaumDonna Stonecipher is the author of four books of poetry: The Reservoir (winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series competition 2002); Souvenir de Constantinople (2007); The Cosmopolitan (winner of the National Poetry Series 2008) and Model City (2015). Her poems have been published in many journals including The Paris Review New American Writing and Conjunctions and have been translated into six languages. She lives in Berlin.
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