And then there are John Tranter's rather neat 'reverse haibun', where the
'poem' leads to a 'turn' on the little 'prose' piece at the end.
And Sheila E Murphy has some terrific haibun.
I thoroughly enjoyed Trevor's prose pieces, in his definitely major
collected, _with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold_ , but they
stetch out to such a length (in which a _sense_ of narrative simply has to
enter?) that I'm not sure I think of them as 'prose poems' in the
conventional sense. I mean, I wonder: does what is generally called a
'prose poem' more or less have to be fairly short, shorter than a single
page?
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
now I long to give up cigarettes
and change the sheets on my carboniferous bed;
O baby, what Hell to be Greek in this country -
without wings, but burning anyway
Gwendolyn MacEwen
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