Well, I'd call the first a long poem, & most of the second is
Ondaatjean prose.
But I agree with you Andrew, that most often a novelist's idea of what
a character's poems should be aren't that god. I always read the stuff
though, or at least begin to.
And if it's quoted stuff then how well does it fit? And if not, does
it 'work'?
Which is he question Meika must ask too, right?
Doug
On 22-Mar-07, at 6:49 PM, andrew burke wrote:
> BUT - a great 'novel' like The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is all
> poetry, and Coming Through Slaughter also. No skimming there!
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