Description

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Celebrating the prose poetry sequence in twentieth century literature.Sequences, some narrative and some fragmentary emerged as a form early in the twentieth century with the work of Ernest Hemingway, Amy Lowell, T.S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, H.D., and others. Braids & Sequins traces the form to contemporary writers including Donald Hall, Holly Iglesias, Robert Bly, Michael Benedict, Kay Boyle, David Young, Robert Duncan, N. Scott Momaday, Jim Hazard, Nin Andrews and many others.

About the Author

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Robert Alexander (1949 - 2023) received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and worked for many years as a freelance editor. From 1993 to 2001, he was a contributing editor at New Rivers Press, serving for the final two years as New Rivers' creative director. Alexander is the founding editor of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series at White Pine Press. He authored several collections of prose poetry and two historical books.