Notes on contributors; Preface, Rosemary Lloyd; Introduction, Mary Ann Caws and Michel Delville; Part I: Origins and Beginnings 1. The Birth of the Prose Poem in Nineteenth-Century France, Joseph Acquisto; 2. Impressionism and the Prose Poem: Rimbaud's Artful Authenticity, Aimée Israel-Pelletier; 3. Novalis' Hymnen an die Nacht and the Prose Poem avant la lettre, Jonathan Monroe; 4. Thyrsus & Palimpsest: De Quincey's influence on Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris, Nikki Santilli; 5. A Dangerous Hybridity: The Prose Poem at the fin de siècle, Margueritte Murphy; Part II: Visual Mediations; 6. Cubism and the Prose Poem, Mary Ann Caws; 7. The Modern French Prose Poem and Visual Art, Emma Wagstaff; 8. The Homeless Heart: Abstraction and the Prose Poem, Richard Deming; Part III: Genres and Discourses; 9. The Prose Poem, Flash Fiction, Lyrical Essays and Other Micro-Genres, Michel Delville; 10. The Prose Poem and the Anti-Novel: Unsettling Form in Nathalie Sarraute's Tropismes, Jane Monson; 11. Bishop, Lowell, and the Confessional Prose Poem, Lizzy LeRud; 12. Trans-verse: Prose Poetry, Translation and Border Crossing in Baudelaire and Emerson, Adam Ross Rosenthal; Part IV: Issues and Contexts; 13. An Interruption of Boundaries: On Gender and the Prose Poem, Alyson Miller; 14. Pastoral and Ecocritical Voices in Modern Prose Poetry, Lynn Domina; 15. Grzegorz Wróblewski's Kopenhaga and the Process of Inscription, Piotr Gwiazda; 16. The Chinese Prose Poem: Generic Metaphor and the Multiple Origins of Sanwenshi, Nick Admussen; 17. The sanbunshi (Prose Poem) in Japan, Scott Mehl; 18. The Arabic Prose Poem in Iraq, Sinan Antoon; 19. After Poet's Prose: Postgeneric Writing in the Ongoing Crisis of Verse, Stephen Fredman; 20. Prose in Prose in Contemporary French Poetic Practice: Appropriation, Repurposing and Pornography, Jeff Barda; Index.
