poetry might even appear in the form of the human body
or some vintage engine without steam
however it looks and feels it emerges as the verbs to be / to do / to work
and everybody (t)here
in the way
or on the way
knows something
or other
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Judy Prince
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> Phillip Levine tends to write prose that's end-lined as if it were poetry.
> And he calls it poetry.
> _Question: What, then, makes poetry poetry and not
> chopped-off-at-a-slightly-shorter-line-length-than-prose, 'poetry'?_
>
> Assume first, of course, that the 'poet' exhibits all the characteristics,
> in her writing, of poetry, a few which are: rhythm, rhyme (if only
> internal), figures, of course, and alliteration. But the poet is really
> writing prose, as described above and exemplified in Levine's 'poetry'.
>
> Judy
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