I've actually done this. In my novel, "The Virgil Directive," I had a
character who was a Nobel Prizewinning German author, now in a
concentration camp in France, and I wrote a poem for him, which I also
later published separately.
Patrick Mc Manus wrote:
> I tend to skip them as well -am zooming along enjoying reading then get
> interupted by a poem -trying to think where it worked -but my memory is
> going!!
> P
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> Subject: poetry in prose (novels)
>
> 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?
>
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