The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre (European Literature and Philosophy)

"Delville's readings of individual poems are, for the most part, prescient, crisp, and smart. His substantial research attunes and edifies his sense of the peculiar, self-contained workings of many prose poems. He is especially good at elucidating the methods and approaches of the Language school, clearly describing the way in which their efforts to derail meaning stem from suspicions that common conceptions of meaning in language grow from the norms of the society into which the work is launched-norms exemplified by the common need to grasp a unified meaning in a literary work. The transgressive character of the prose poem emerges here as a natural expression of the Language poets' anti-establishment impulse."Michel Delville is the author of 'The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre (European Literature and Philosophy)', published 1998 under ISBN 9780813015910 and ISBN 081301591X.