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| Preface to the second edition | p. vii |
| Preface to the first edition | p. xiii |
| List of abbreviations | p. xv |
| Introduction: Prose and the American crisis of verse | p. 1 |
| The generative sentence: William Carlos Williams's Kora in Hell: Improvisations | p. 14 |
| Word versus syntax | p. 14 |
| The generative sentence | p. 31 |
| The "Hey-ding-ding touch" | p. 40 |
| "A life tracking itself": Robert Creeley's Presences: A Test for Marisol | p. 57 |
| A conjectural prose | p. 57 |
| Repetition and appearance | p. 69 |
| "A life tracking itself" | p. 79 |
| The morality of measure | p. 89 |
| "He chose to include": John Ashbery's Three Poems | p. 101 |
| A translative prose | p. 101 |
| "He chose to include" | p. 117 |
| Ashbery and the French prose poem | p. 126 |
| The crisis at present: talk poems and the new poet's prose | p. 136 |
| David Antin's talk poems | p. 137 |
| David Bromige, Ron Silliman, and Michael Davidson | p. 142 |
| Epilogue | p. 150 |
| Notes | p. 162 |
| Index | p. 191 |
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Poet's Prose
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Pub. Date: 1984-01-26
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