Me neither! Let's spend our lives recusing our
catholicity and promoting ornamental hermits. (Ah,
hermits--my favorite cookie.)
Candice
The death of Satan was a tragedy
For the imagination...
--- Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> <snip>
> > In fact, I'd say that the narrative poem is
> > closer to fiction than to poetry,
> <snip>
> >
> > Candice
> >
>
> Absolutely. I remember attempting a longish
> narrative poem about ten years
> ago, and getting my knickers in a twist over some
> structural point or other.
> Eventually, someone suggested I tackled the problem
> as though I were writing
> a novel. Which was clearly the right advice, but
> made me realise that
> extended narrative poetry wasn't really what I
> wanted out of life.
>
> Sequence -- now that's a whole 'nother story.
>
> joanna
>
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