Picking up on your Loydell reference, Dave: he writes haibun, doesn't he?
It's even more mysterious to me how poets structure those--whether they
think of only the "poetry parts" _as_ structured in the line-breakable
sense, for instance. I've never written one of these myself, but would
assume the alternating modes to have a grip-and-release effect on the mind
AND the line--at least that's how I'd probably experience it, but I don't
pretend to be normal.
Candice
> The really curious thing about prose poetry is that the line breaks can and
> do matter, particularly between stanzas, otherwise what happens truly is
> prose. Rupert Loydell a little while back published an anthology of prose
> poetry and I was quite horrified when I read it as many of the pieces seemed
> blissfuly unaware of this necessity. I wouldn't dare to define it, I think
> it falls into the matter of our art being an 'art' not a science, so it
> comes down to 'feel'.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
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> Subject: Definitions
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>
>> *much chuckling*
>>
>> Well I feel a little better now.
>> If you guys cant agree on what free verse is,
>> what hope have I got?
>>
>> Its always the most fundamental question that spurs the
>> discussion.
>> You should thank the goddess for beginners with silly
>> questions.
>>
>> Matt said
>> "(If you decide to do away
>> with the line breaks altogether, you have prose poetry,
>> which a colleague of
>> mine insists is not poetry at all - but we've had the prose
>> poetry
>> discussion already.)"
>>
>> Well that was going to be my next question ...
>>
>> I'm inclined to confusedly agree with your colleague.
>> And as I was not here when this was discussed before,
>> and as its poetry and not egomaniacal ravings,
>> isnt it a legitimate topic? ;-)
>>
>> Josephine
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