{"product_id":"the-penguin-book-of-the-prose-poem-9780141984568","title":"The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003einvigorating\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003estupendous\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eexhilarating\u003c\/em\u003e guide (\u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e) to the beguiling form which has attracted many of our most beloved writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt is hard to know how it could possibly be bettered\u003c\/em\u003e - Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe prose poem has proven one of the most innovative and versatile poetic forms of recent years. In the century-and-a-half since Charles Baudelaire, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde and Ivan Turgenev spread the notion of a new kind of poetry, this \u003cem\u003egenre with an oxymoron for a name\u003c\/em\u003e has attracted and beguiled many of our most beloved writers. Yet, even now, this peculiarly rich and expansive form can strike many readers as something of a mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere, Jeremy Noel-Tod reconstructs the history of the prose poem for us by selecting the essential pieces of writing - by turns luminous, brooding, lamentatory and comic - which have defined and developed it at each stage, covering a greater chronological sweep and international range than any previous anthology of this kind. In \u003cem\u003eThe Penguin Book of the Prose Poem\u003c\/em\u003e, Margaret Atwood rubs shoulders with Claudia Rankine; Lu Xun and Rabindranath Tagore take seats in the family tree above Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage; and Czeslaw Milosz sits just pages from Eileen Myles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47341368049900,"sku":"9780141984568","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14647663482238.jpg?v=1772190478","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-penguin-book-of-the-prose-poem-9780141984568","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}