Notes on contributors; Preface, Rosemary Lloyd; Introduction, Mary Ann Caws and Michel Delville;
Part I: Origins and Beginnings
1. The Birth of the Prose Poem in Nineteenth-Century France, Joseph Acquisto;
2. Impressionism and the Prose Poem: Rimbaud’s Artful Authenticity, Aimée Israel-Pelletier;
3. Novalis’ Hymnen an die Nacht and the Prose Poem avant la lettre, Jonathan Monroe;
4. Thyrsus & Palimpsest: De Quincey’s influence on Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris, Nikki Santilli;
5. A Dangerous Hybridity: The Prose Poem at the fin de siècle, Margueritte Murphy;
Part II: Visual Mediations;
6. Cubism and the Prose Poem, Mary Ann Caws;
7. The Modern French Prose Poem and Visual Art, Emma Wagstaff;
8. The Homeless Heart: Abstraction and the Prose Poem, Richard Deming;
Part III: Genres and Discourses;
9. The Prose Poem, Flash Fiction, Lyrical Essays and Other Micro-Genres, Michel Delville;
10. The Prose Poem and the Anti-Novel: Unsettling Form in Nathalie Sarraute’s Tropismes, Jane Monson;
11. Bishop, Lowell, and the Confessional Prose Poem, Lizzy LeRud;
12. Trans-verse: Prose Poetry, Translation and Border Crossing in Baudelaire and Emerson, Adam Ross Rosenthal;
Part IV: Issues and Contexts;
13. An Interruption of Boundaries: On Gender and the Prose Poem, Alyson Miller;
14. Pastoral and Ecocritical Voices in Modern Prose Poetry, Lynn Domina;
15. Grzegorz Wróblewski’s Kopenhaga and the Process of Inscription, Piotr Gwiazda;
16. The Chinese Prose Poem: Generic Metaphor and the Multiple Origins of Sanwenshi, Nick Admussen;
17. The sanbunshi (Prose Poem) in Japan, Scott Mehl;
18. The Arabic Prose Poem in Iraq, Sinan Antoon;
19. After Poet’s Prose: Postgeneric Writing in the Ongoing Crisis of Verse, Stephen Fredman;
20. Prose in Prose in Contemporary French Poetic Practice: Appropriation, Repurposing and Pornography, Jeff Barda; Index.