Meika,
I used to avidly seek and/or find poetry embedded in
prose, but was always disappointed--well, always but
once: P.D. James' detective, Adam Dalgliesh, is also a
poet whose work has twice been quoted in her
novels--one a poem he supposedly wrote at age 14,
which was amazingly good, and the other a conceited
sonnet that he himself destroyed, partly because it
was so bad. I have a feeling that her detective series
will become more poetic now that there's a love
interest (about which I'm ambivalent), but James
shouldn't push her luck since _she's_ not herself a
poet and seems totally unaware of what's being written
by actual poets these days. (Other than that, I won't
hear a word against her!)
Candice
--- Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Isn't there a form like this?
>
> I tried this once:
>
> http://www.badstep.net/text/poetry/estaury/fox.html
>
>
> On 3/23/07, meikamonagmail <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > 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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> "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde
>
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