Outside of quotes and epigrammatic titles does anyone read poetry
inserted into the body of prose, like in a novel? I know this is
heresy for this list but I find my eyes tend to skip over it
automatically, and on with the story or scene and stuff, for having
to change gear (down or up) in order to give the poem justice my
readerly instincts just can not often be bothered. (And no I am not a
skim reader)
Does anyone else do this?
I ask because I am considering some poetic form for some particular
reason in the work I am currently writing (fat alt.colonial
spec.fiction) and wondered if this was a bad idea considering I just
skip the things myself. Is it just me?
Should I ignore line breaks and run the poems into prose paragraphs
with some adjusting punctuation (maybe trad slashes?)
ideas?
I'm just thinking aloud I guess.
meika
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