Nicholas-
>>I've read some of Borges' poetry and I seem to get more "poetry" out of
the "stories".
That's how I feel about Edger Allen Poe's stories/prose. He writes wonderful
run-on sentences full of alliteration/the music of syllables and sense. For
me his sentences are more than merely 'poetic', they are better poetry than
a lot of verse I've read in, say, the American Poetry Review. Perhaps his
sentences are the first American stream of consciousness writing? Stream of
consciousness whose course kept to the point of the flow, contours of the
story.
My favorite definition of poetry is Pound's "Poetry is language charged with
meaning". Poe's prose and I think the best of 20th century verse (of any
form) accomplishes the release and passage of energy from author to reader
via language so charged that words, their being, are the alchemical
catalyst, the powder keg, the place of nuclear fusion.
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