Family Portrait: American Prose Poetry 1900 - 1950

We are working to place the introduction and afterword in academic publications. We will do a special push for review attention in academic journals including: Choice, Higher Education, the Chronicle of Education and others. The anthology includes a strong academic introduction from Margueritte Murphy which will make it an essential text for courses studying the prose poem Co-op available Promotion and ads in Sentence: The Journal of Prose Poetry, Rain Taxi and other journals.

Family Portrait doesn't just rewrite the history of the prose poem in America - it sets the record straight."Family Portrait doesn't just rewrite the history of the prose poem in America--it sets the record straight. Murphy's scholarly introduction sets the stage for a book that traces the history of American prose poetry from 1900--1950. Simply put, this collection belongs on every poet's--and poetry lover's--bookshelf. No one will be able to write about the prose poem without referencing Family Portrait."--Peter Conners The groundbreaking anthology of prose poetry collects over sixty voices including such well-known figures as Sherwood Anderson, William Lisle Bowles, Kay Boyle, e. e. cummings, H.D., Robert Duncan, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Earnest Hemingway, Robert Lowell, Kenneth Patchen, Riding Jackson, Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, Thornton Wilder, and William Carlos Williams.