No Boundaries

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Edited by Ray Gonzalez

As more poets write prose poems, one of the most common reasons they give for turning to them is that their fluent composition offers a “freedom of expression” lined poetry often restricts. To many, this sounds like a contradiction stemming from the eternal belief that any kind of good poetry has no boundaries. Yet those that write prose poems insist the act of placing their poems into sentences and paragraphs gives them a fresh approach to content and form.

Edited by Ray Gonzalez

As more poets write prose poems, one of the most common reasons they give for turning to them is that their fluent composition offers a “freedom of expression” lined poetry often restricts. To many, this sounds like a contradiction stemming from the eternal belief that any kind of good poetry has no boundaries. Yet those that write prose poems insist the act of placing their poems into sentences and paragraphs gives them a fresh approach to content and form.

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About the Editor

Ray Gonzalez has been poetry editor of The Bloomsbury Review for twenty-two years, and has won numerous awards for his prolific literary output. In 2002, he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his poetry collection, The Hawk Temple at Tierre Grande. He has won many awards for his anthologies and, to date, has compiled a dozen literature collections. He teaches at the University of Minnesota.

Contributors

Mary Koncel, Killarney Clary, Russell Edson, Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Peter Johnson, Nin Andrews, Naomi Shihab Nye, Karen Volkman, Robert Bly, Jon Davis, Amy Gerstler, Juan Felipe Herrera, George Kalamaras, Morton Marcus, Liz Waldner, Campbell McGrath, John Bradley, Linda Dyer, Ray Gonzalez, Louis Jenkins, Christine Boyka Kluge, Harryette Mullen, Gary Young, Charles Simic

Advanced Praise

“…an invigorating, eclectic read of work that neither seeks to represent a so-called ‘genre’ nor defines a particular aesthetic urge and agenda.” — Greta Aart, Cerise Press

“Gonzalez, as editor, has successfully conveyed the breadth and caliber of the modern American prose poem in these pages and deserves accolades for his choices and clear editorial sense of purpose. Many of these poems are playful, ironic, funny, even silly and because of this they accomplish something marvelous by pushing past the limits of the deadly-serious that too often pervades received concepts of the poetry canon.” — Ann E. Michael, Poets’ Quarterly

The Spring Thaw 2004 issue (Volume Five, Number Two) of Iron Horse Literary Review has a dazzling review of No Boundaries.

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-932195-01-9