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Book Synopsis"Family Portrait doesn't just rewrite the history of the prose poem in America--it sets the record straight. Murphy's scholarly introduction sets the stage for a book that traces the history of American prose poetry from 1900--1950. Simply put, this collection belongs on every poet's--and poetry lover's--bookshelf. No one will be able to write about the prose poem without referencing Family Portrait."--Peter Conners The groundbreaking anthology of prose poetry collects over sixty voices including such well-known figures as Sherwood Anderson, William Lisle Bowles, Kay Boyle, e. e. cummings, H.D., Robert Duncan, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Earnest Hemingway, Robert Lowell, Kenneth Patchen, Riding Jackson, Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, Thornton Wilder, and William Carlos Williams.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents Editor’s Note Margueritte Murphy Introduction: The Prose Poem as a Modernist Genre Virginia Admiral (1915-2000) The Escaped Bear Margaret Anderson (1886-1973) Ocean Aquarium Landscape Imagism Toward Revolution Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) The Cornfields Song of the Soul of Chicago The Lame One Sister Holly Beye (1922-2011) For the Singer That is Gone In the Eucalyptus Forest Faces in a Furious Night The Unremitting Stain The Release of Hostages Some New Notches with an Old Knife Paul Bowles (1910-1999) from No Village Kay Boyle (1902-1992) Summer January 1, U.S.A. January 24, New York from For An American Emily Holmes Coleman (1899-1974) The Wren’s Nest Harry Crosby (1898-1929) Embrace Me You Said Mosquito Ovid’s Flea I Had No Idea What They Would Do Next In Search of the Young Wizard Human Flesh and Golden Apples White Clover Golden Spoon White Slipper E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) “i was sitting in mcsorley’s” “at the ferocious phenomenon of 5 o’clock” Harriet Dean (1892-1964) Debutante Barn-Yarding Departure H. D. (1886-1961) from Four Prose Choruses Robert Duncan (1919-1988) At Home Correspondences Source Unkingd by Affection Concerning the Maze T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) Hysteria The Engine Mary Fabill (1914-2011) The Morning Led They in Whose Dreams This Is the Day of Freedom Poem William Faulkner (1897-1962) The Priest Frankie and Johnny The Cobbler Magdalen John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950) The Death of England The Secret of Mars The Way of Dust The End of Job Charles Henri Ford (1913-2002) Suite Flag of Ecstasy Message to Rimbaud Jane Heap (1883-1964) Sketches Paris at One Time Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) from In Our Time Fenton Johnson (1888-1958) African Nights Amy Lowell (1874-1925) Bath Breakfast Table Walk Midday and Afternoon Robert McAlmon (1896-1956) Village Fire Bug The Artificial Lake Ploughed Land History of the Early Twentieth Century History Professor Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) Polly—An Almost-True Story Family Portrait O What a Revolution There Are Two When We Were Here Together A Pasturized Scene Laura Riding (1901-1991) William and Daisy: Fragment of a Finished Novel Hungry to Hear In a Café Edouard Roditi (1910-1992) Metamorphosis Séance Old Wives Tale Hand from The Pathos of History Robert Alden Sanborn (1877-1962) The Billiard Players At the Elite Alleys Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) A Piano In Between A Sound Suppose An Eyes A Long Dress Colored Hats A Substance in a Cushion Jean Toomer (1894-1967) Calling Jesus Rhobert Karintha Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) Sentences William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) The Delicacies from Kora in Hell A Matisse Theessentialroar from For Bill Bird Verbal Transcription—6 A. M. The Pace that Kills Exultation Afterword Contributors’ Notes Sources Acknowledgments ?
