the book I would recommend for discussion and
theory of the prose poem is "The American Prose
Poem : Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre"
by Michel Delville
Robert Bly has written much on the subject as
well esp. in "American Poetry: Wildness and
Domesticity"
> Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:07:07 +0100
> From: g g <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: prose poem
>
> Dear Joanne,
>
> I'm glad I couls help.
>
> I wasn't asking for any particular reason
> except that I am French and your name could
> well be French.
>
> regards,
>
> Gael.
>
> On Sat, 12 May 2001, joannedenton wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear GG, Thank you for your very helpful
> feedback. I have typed out your
> > reply as well as all the other wonderful
> responses to my query. As to your
> > question of my ethnicity-sp? I am a English,
> German and whatever,mutt.
> > (Why'd you ask? ) sending reguards, Joanne
> > Original Message -----
> > From: "g g" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> > Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 4:32 AM
> > Subject: Re: prose poem
> >
> >
> > > Dear Joanne,
> > >
> > > No questions is too dumb for the interested
> one.
> > > You probably already got your answer so
> far, but the best way would be to
> > try it for yourself.
> > > '
> > > What's Poetry? Each and every one us
> certainly have his own feeling about
> > it, but a common definition would certainly
> be expressing your own ideas,
> > feeling or truths along an aesthetic
> wavelenght or what could be agreed as
> > such. It would be the exact right feeling
> translated in the exact right
> > words.
> > >
> > > At least that is my definition.
> > >
> > > So you could choose to do it in verse,
> having the final word producing the
> > same or similar sound from one line to
> another, or any other combination.
> > >
> > > Or in prose, where it looks more like a
> text, writting without trying to
> > produce the same sound with the ends of
> lines, but just writting.
> > >
> > > Some ideas would be best expressed in
> verses, some best in proses.
> > >
> > > It's also depending of your mood of the
> moment.
> > >
> > > The important is to write poetry, one you
> could be satisfied with.
> > >
> > > Gael.
> > >
> > > ps: am I wrong if I guess you are French?
>
>
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> End of POETRYETC Digest - 12 May 2001 to 13 May
> 2001 (#2001-26)
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...I am a real poet. My poem
is finished and I haven't mentioned
orange yet. It's twelve poems, I call
it ORANGES. And one day in a gallery
I see Mike's painting, called SARDINES.
[from "Why I Am Not A Painter" by Kenneth Koch]
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