On the margins: part two.(prose poems)(Column)

From: The American Poetry Review | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

IN THE PAST FEW DECADES THE PROSE POEM has served as vehicle for some of our most adventurous writing. Historically poised on the margins since its inception--generally credited to Baudelaire in the 1850s--formally walking the tightrope between poetry and prose, the prose poem employs poetic compression but can also take advantage of some of the narrative arguments of prose. As a matter of description, the sentence serves as lever of music rather than the line; rhythm's established by sound, beat and by the pacing of the sentence (or from sentence to sentence). With Gertrude ...

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