>Hi, I just recently joined the list, and have been lurking, so maybe I
>missed out on the original post, so I have to ask, what are
>poessays? And are these a good example?
>Debbie Brown
>Cleveland, Ohio U.S.
Now, there's the question. Clearly the author thinks so, & he is 'essaying'
questions, or, rather, it seems in this case, commentaries. But I first
came across the term (I think the first time) on the back of Susa Howe's
amazing collection, The Birth-mark: unsettling the wilderness in American
literary history. There Marjorie Perloff suggested that Howe's writing in
both the books marked poetry & the books marked essays is very similar, &
so suggested as a useful term for her writing, 'poessays'. I find it more
useful there, I will admit...
Douglas Barbour
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University of Alberta
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Shakespeare
Drag yr mouldy old bones
Up these stairs & tell me
What you died of,
I think
I've got it
Too.
Sharon Thesen
