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The Best of the Prose Poem: An International Journal

Special Issue

The Prose Poem: An International Journal was published in eight volumes, from 1992 through 1999. In 2000, editor Peter Johnson gathered a selection of poems from these volumes to highlight in a Best of format.

Works listed under the "Cover Featured" heading were printed directly on the front cover of the issue in which they were published.

Works listed under the "Poems" heading were contained within individual issues.

Works listed under the "Additional Material and Poems" heading consist of other portions of the book, as well as four poems that were never published in any previous volume.

Additonal Poems and Other Material

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Introduction
Peter Johnson

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Epilogue
Russell Edson

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Selected Bibliography
Peter Johnson, Michel Delville

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My Own House
Robert Ignatow

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A Modern Fable
Robert Ignatow

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Talk
William Matthews

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Attention, Everyone
William Matthews

Cover Featured

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Last Gifts
Kim Addonizio

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Privacy
Rose Ausländer

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Sleep
Russell Edson

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Without Recrimination
David Ignatow

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September
Louis Jenkins

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Theseus and Ariadne
Charles Simic

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Denied Areas
James Tate

Poems

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In The Sportsman
Robert Alexander

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Dear Shahid,
Agha Shahid Ali

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Angels
Jack Anderson

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Moral Discourse
Jack Anderson

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The Obsession
Nin Andrews

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Progress I
Rose Ausländer

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Poem XXXV
Ruth Behar

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Viol da Gamba
Aloysius Bertrand

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An Oyster Shell
Robert Bly

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Beatniks
Michael Bowden

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Memo to Ariadne
John Bradley

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The Accident
John Bradley

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Marked
Joel Brouwer

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Tumor
Joel Brouwer

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Ignis Fatuus
Christopher Buckley

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Lucy Z
Lynne Burris Butler

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A Little Request
George Chambers and Raymond Federman

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Heavenly Bodies
Maxine Chernoff

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The Sound
Maxine Chernoff

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Practicum
Michael Chitwood

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The Land of Liars
David Citino

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Early radios talk...
Killarney Clary

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Hay
Mark Cunningham

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Psalm For Fay
Philip Dacey

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In History: I
Jon Davis

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In History: II
Jon Davis

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The Bait
Jon Davis

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The Frogs
Jon Davis

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In this moment...
Ales Debeljak

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The Music
Chard deNiord

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Dad's Home
Peter Desy

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Dilation
Ray Dipalma

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The Urban Life
Liljana Dirjan

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Alphabet Soup
Stuart Dybek

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Balls
Russell Edson

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Bread
Russell Edson

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The Antique Shop
Russell Edson

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The Portrait
Russell Edson

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The Traveling Circus
Russell Edson

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Maria Of The Night
Nikos Engonopoulos

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Constrictor
Clayton Eshleman

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A Little Kitchen Music
Lawrence Fixel

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Chickenhead
Richard Garcia

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Mysterious Tears
Amy Gerstler

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The Wolverine
Gary Gildner

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Busy
Ray Gonzalez

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Shopping Trip
Miriam Goodman

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Speak Up
David Greenslade

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Lifting The Virgin
Richard Gwyn

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Omaha
S. C. Hahn

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Geography
Bob Heman

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This Time
Bob Heman

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The Invitation
Brian Henry

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The Rubbing
Jennifer L. Holley

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Proud Of Myself
David Ignatow

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A Little Charade
Gray Jacobik

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Le Nouveau Temps
Sybil James

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The Working Life
Louis Jenkins

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Your Baby
Louis Jenkins

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Night-Blindness
Brian Johnson

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Tohu
Paol Keineg

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After the Weather
Mary A. Koncel

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No Name For It
Stephen Kuusisto

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Black Box
David Lazar

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In Melville's Room
P. H. Liotta

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A Balkan Odyssey
P.H. Liotta

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A Poem For Ahab
P.H. Liotta

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Droughtmonger
Gian Lombardo

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If Words Hold Still
Gian Lombardo

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On The Bias
Gian Lombardo

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Doing Hatha Yoga
Robert Hill Long

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The Stone Flowers
Morton Marcus

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Three Heroes
Morton Marcus

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Black Light
Peter Markus

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Light
Peter Markus

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A Resort
Michael Martone

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A Village
Michael Martone

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Difficulty In My Heart
Kathleen McGookey

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Ugly, smiling Agnes...
Kathleen McGookey

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Forces
Jay Meek

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From Necessities
Christopher Merrill

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Simplicity
Henri Michaux

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The Fig
Gabriela Mistral

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From Noir
Fred Muratori

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From Noir
Fred Muratori

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The Key
Pablo Neruda

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Hammer And Nail
Naomi Shihab Nye

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La Feria
Naomi Shihab Nye

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Ghost Triptych
Nina Nyhart

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War Stories
Nina Nyhart

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Chicago
Tommy Olofsson

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I Remember Clearly
Imre Oravecz

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Bachelorhood
Robert Perchan

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Gillagain
Robert Perchan

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Nights At The Races
Robert Perchan

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Blood Somewhere
Jane Lunin Perel

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Ahead And Behind
Francis Picabia

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Tradition
Cristian Popescu

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The Spectator
Constance Pultz

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The fair starts . . .
Jacques Réda

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Behind the Eyelids
Pierre Reverdy

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Combat Area
Pierre Reverdy

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Evening Walk
Yannis Ritsos

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Hannelore
Vern Rutsala

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Your Time Will Come
John Shoemaker

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Holy Day
Barry Silesky

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Saved
Barry Silesky

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Euphemia Gray's Pubis
Charles Simic

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Heroic Moment
Charles Simic

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Voice From the Cage
Charles Simic

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Medals
Goran Simic

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War Mice
Goran Simic

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China Lesson
William Slaughter

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Amerika
Bruce Smith

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A Parisian Dinner
Ellen Smith

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Windy Day at Kabekona
Thomas R. Smith

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Prayer
Linda Smukler

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Radio
Linda Smukler

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Searches
Maura Stanton

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The Sign
J. David Stevens

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The Director
Brian Swann

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Man and His Shadow
Jean Tardieu

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All Over The Lot
James Tate

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To Each His Own
James Tate

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Max In Egypt
Carine Topal

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Mail-Order Bride
Helen Tzagoloff

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The Getaway
Mark Vinz

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Post Prandial
Liz Waldner

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This
Rosmarie Waldrop

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Pomades
Charles H. Webb

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Baseball
Tom Whalen

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The Next Morning
Tom Whalen

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Connemara
M.L. Williams

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Song Of The Gourd
C.D. Wright

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Kitchen Ruckus
David Young

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Incognito
Andrew Zawacki

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The Hole
Gene Zeiger

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The Wind
Gene Zeiger

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The Sky Upon Us
James A. Zoller