Reviews
"This major pioneering work is not likely to be superseded -- only supplemented, as needed. His skillful bibliography indicates a serious and industrious scholar who offers not an answer, but a rich resource. Valuable for all academic collections."
--Choice
"By including such diverse figures as Gertrude Stein, Robert Bly, and Charles Simic in his study of the American prose poem, Michel Delville provides a quick and informative account of recent efforts in this genre."
--Virginia Quarterly Review
"A real achievement. He has produced a comprehensive history of the American prose poem that takes us from Joyce and Stein to the immediate present with great skill, finesse, and critical sophistication."
--The Prose Poem: An International Journal
"This is one of the few works to address English language prose poetry. . . . It displays an agreeable readiness to discuss writers who are too often ignored and it takes an equally agreeable, non-prescriptive approach to this significant form."
--American Studies in Europe
"Provides perhaps the best full discussion of the prose poem to date. He gives his readers a variety of useful definitions of the form as practiced from the nineteenth through the twentieth century."
--Etudes Anglaises