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PROSE POETRY: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice Edited by Gary L FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Kathleen Rooney: (617) 548.9145; [email protected] an independent publisher of hybrid genres Announces the upcoming publication of The Rose Metal Press FIELD GUIDE TO PROSE POETRY: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice Edited by Gary L. McDowell and F. Daniel Rzicznek FEATURING ESSAYS FROM: McDowell FEATURING ESSAYS FROM: Nin Andrews - Joe Bonomo - John Bradley - Nin Andrews – Joe Bonomo – John Bradley – Brigitte Byrd Maxine Chernoff – David Daniel – Denise Duhamel – Nancy Eimers Brigitte Byrd - Maxine Chernoff - David Daniel - Beckian Fritz Goldberg – Ray Gonzalez – Arielle Greenberg • Kevin Griffith – Carol Guess – Maurice Kilwein Guevara – James Harms Rzicznek Denise Duhamel - Nancy Eimers - Beckian Fritz Bob Hicok – Tung-Hui Hu – Christopher Kennedy – David Keplinger Goldberg - Ray Gonzalez - Arielle Greenberg - Gerry LaFemina – David Lazar – Alexander Long – Kathleen McGookey Robert Miltner – Amy Newman – William Olsen – Andrew Michael Roberts Kevin Griffith - Carol Guess - Maurice Kilwein Michael Robins – Mary Ann Samyn – Maureen Seaton – David Shumate Jeffrey Skinner – Mark Wallace – Gary Young Guevara - James Harms - Bob Hicok - Tung- THE ROSE METAL PRESS to Guide Field Hui Hu - Christopher Kennedy - David A wide-ranging gathering of 34 brief essays and 66 prose poems by distinguished Field Guide to practitioners, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry is as personal and Keplinger - Gerry LaFemina - David Lazar - provocative, accessible and idiosyncratic as the genre itself. The essayists discuss their craft, influences, and experiences, all while pondering larger questions: Alexander Long - Kathleen McGookey - Robert What is prose poetry? Why write prose poems? With its pioneering introduction, this collection provides a history of the development of the prose poem up to Miltner - Amy Newman - William Olsen - Prose Poetry Prose Prose its current widespread appeal. Half critical study and half anthology, The Field Andrew Michael Roberts - Michael Robins - Mary Guide to Prose Poetry is a not-to-be-missed companion for readers and writers of poetry, as well as students and teachers of creative writing. Poetry Ann Samyn - Maureen Seaton - David Shumate - Contemporary Poets Jeffrey Skinner - Mark Wallace - Gary Young “Make room on the short shelf of essential books about the prose poem for this terrific Field Guide. Its innovative format—part anthology, part critical investigation—makes in Discussion and Practice it an ideal starting point for newcomers, while its many insights will surely inspire even A wide-ranging gathering of 34 brief essays long-term readers and writers of this much-misunderstood form. Casual, diverse and entertaining, it might just launch a new generation of American prose poets.” and 66 prose poems by distinguished practi- — Campbell McGrath, author of Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Edited by tioners, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Gary L. McDowell Poetry is as personal and provocative, accessible and and F. Daniel Rzicznek idiosyncratic as the genre itself. The essayists www.rosemetalpress.com discuss their craft, influences, and experiences, all Cover art: Pamela Callahan, Ocean Cover design: Rebecca Saraceno while pondering larger questions: What is prose $16.95 poetry? Why write prose poems? With its pioneer- ing introduction, this collection provides a history of the development of the prose poem up to its cur- APRIL 2010 rent widespread appeal. Half critical study and half ISBN 978-0-9789848-8-5 anthology, The Field Guide to Prose Poetry is a not- Paperback, 224 pages to-be-missed companion for readers and writers of Essays and Prose Poems poetry, as well as students and teachers of creative writing. $16.95 www.rosemetalpress.com Advance Praise for The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry Make room on the short shelf of essential books about the prose poem for this terrific Field Guide. Its innovative format—part anthology, part critical investigation—makes it an ideal starting point for newcomers, while its many insights will surely inspire even long-term readers and writers of this much-misunderstood form. Casual, diverse and entertaining, it might just launch a new generation of American prose poets. —Campbell McGrath, author of Shannon: a Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition It looks as if the prose poem ungirdles the latent surrealist, fabulist, Baudelairean flaneur, and Joycean punster in many a writer of mainstream American verse. Here’s a collection of testimonies to a fertile and potent modern form that’s still going strong in its third century. Prose plus poetry? As Rimbaud might say — in fact, did say once in a prose poem — “Drôle de ménage!” —Mark Jarman, author of Epistles If ever you find the prose poem wandering your neighborhood with its strange and beautiful hands stuffed sadly in its pockets, spellbound and feral, searching its body for the lines that keep it, go to it and give the fantastic mongrel The Field Guide so it can find its way back to itself — for here is a guide that honors its anatomy with the same bewilder and brilliance that designed its first breath. —Sabrina Orah Mark, author of Tsim Tsum About the Editors Gary L. McDowell teaches writing at Western Michigan University where he is studying for his PhD in Contemporary Poetics and American Literature. His first collection of poems,American Amen, won the 2009 Orphic Prize and will appear in late 2010 from Dream Horse Press. He is also the author of two chapbooks, They Speak of Fruit (Cooper Dillon, 2009) and The Blueprint (Pudding House, 2005). He lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with his wife and their young son, Auden. F. Daniel Rzicznek teaches English composition and creative writing at Bowling Green State University. His chapbook of prose poems, Cloud Tablets, part of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Series, was published by Kent State University Press in 2006. In 2007, he won the May Swenson Poetry Award for his debut full-length collection, Neck of the World. In 2009 his second collection of poems, Divination Machine, appeared on the Free Verse Editions imprint of Parlor Press. He lives with his wife, the writer Amanda McGuire, in Bowling Green, Ohio. www.rosemetalpress.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Kathleen Rooney: (617) 548.9145; [email protected] .
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