Not to mention poetical prose.
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:47 AM, John Herbert Cunningham <
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> After reading numerous prose poems or things purported to be prose poems,
> I'm still in the dark about what constitutes same and what the discernible
> difference is between prose (particularly now that we have a category
> called
> 'postcard fiction') and the prose poem?
> John Herbert Cunningham
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Tim Allen
> Sent: April-15-10 5:32 AM
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> Subject: Re: review of the new Les Murray
>
> Well yes Doug, the shift has by no means been absolute, just
> considerable enough to my mind to be worth mentioning.
>
> My bias too has always been towards open forms but the relationship of
> lots of little open forms to a more fixed macro form that encompasses
> the lot, such as in many modern long poems and sequences, is
> problematic.
>
> Is the prose poem (or what we normally think of as being a prose poem)
> an open or closed form?
>
> Tim A.
>
> On 14 Apr 2010, at 20:49, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
> > Um? I would not assume any such shift as absolute, that's for sure.
> > But, indeed, one finally has to come back to what works, & that's
> > how well any particular poet does the job at hand. (Though I admit
> > my bias is toward the open not the closed forms...
> >
> > Doug
> > On 14-Apr-10, at 4:03 AM, Tim Allen wrote:
> >
> >> I have written before concerning the subtle shift in the ideology
> >> of free verse from progressive to reactionary that has taken place
> >> over the past 30 years.
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> >
> > Latest books:
> > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> > Wednesdays'
> >
>
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.h
> tml
> >
> > The secret
> >
> > which got lost neither hides
> > nor reveals itself, it shows forth
> >
> > tokens.
> >
> > Charles Olson
>
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