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"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.
Editor’s Note
Margueritte Murphy
Introduction: The Prose Poem as a Modernist Genre
Virginia Admiral (1915-2000)
The Escaped Bear
Margaret Anderson (1886-1973)
Ocean Aquarium
Landscape
Imagism
Toward Revolution
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
The Cornfields
Song of the Soul of Chicago
The Lame One
Sister
Holly Beye (1922-2011)
For the Singer That is Gone
In the Eucalyptus Forest
Faces in a Furious Night
The Unremitting Stain
The Release of Hostages
Some New Notches with an Old Knife
Paul Bowles (1910-1999)
from No Village
Kay Boyle (1902-1992)
Summer
January 1, U.S.A.
January 24, New York
from For An American
Emily Holmes Coleman (1899-1974)
The Wren’s Nest
Harry Crosby (1898-1929)
Embrace Me You Said
Mosquito
Ovid’s Flea
I Had No Idea What They Would Do Next
In Search of the Young Wizard
Human Flesh and Golden Apples
White Clover
Golden Spoon
White Slipper
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
“i was sitting in mcsorley’s”
“at the ferocious phenomenon of 5 o’clock”
Harriet Dean (1892-1964)
Debutante
Barn-Yarding
Departure
H. D. (1886-1961)
from Four Prose Choruses
Robert Duncan (1919-1988)
At Home
Correspondences
Source
Unkingd by Affection
Concerning the Maze
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Hysteria
The Engine
Mary Fabill (1914-2011)
The Morning Led
They in Whose Dreams
This Is the Day of Freedom
Poem
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
The Priest
Frankie and Johnny
The Cobbler
Magdalen
John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950)
The Death of England
The Secret of Mars
The Way of Dust
The End of Job
Charles Henri Ford (1913-2002)
Suite
Flag of Ecstasy
Message to Rimbaud
Jane Heap (1883-1964)
Sketches
Paris at One Time
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
from In Our Time
Fenton Johnson (1888-1958)
African Nights
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
Bath
Breakfast Table
Walk
Midday and Afternoon
Robert McAlmon (1896-1956)
Village
Fire Bug
The Artificial Lake
Ploughed Land
History of the Early Twentieth Century
History Professor
Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)
Polly—An Almost-True Story
Family Portrait
O What a Revolution
There Are Two
When We Were Here Together
A Pasturized Scene
Laura Riding (1901-1991)
William and Daisy: Fragment of a Finished Novel
Hungry to Hear
In a Café
Edouard Roditi (1910-1992)
Metamorphosis
Séance
Old Wives Tale
Hand
from The Pathos of History
Robert Alden Sanborn (1877-1962)
The Billiard Players
At the Elite
Alleys
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
A Piano
In Between
A Sound
Suppose An Eyes
A Long Dress
Colored Hats
A Substance in a Cushion
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
Calling Jesus
Rhobert
Karintha
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
Sentences
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
The Delicacies
from Kora in Hell
A Matisse
Theessentialroar
from For Bill Bird
Verbal Transcription—6 A. M.
The Pace that Kills
Exultation
Afterword
Contributors’ Notes
Sources
Acknowledgments
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