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	Prose poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prose poetry is usually considered an innovative form of poetry written in prose that breaks some of the normal rules associated with prose discourse, for heightened imagery or emotional effect, among other purposes.
		As a specific form, prose poetry is generally assumed to have originated in the 19th century in France.
		The prose poem continued to be written in France and found profound expression, in the mid-20th century, in the prose poems of Francis Ponge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prose_poem (734 words)

	POETRY AND PROSE FROM IN POSSE REVIEW
		In poetry the basic unit of construction is the line; in the prose poem, as in prose, the basic unit of construction is the sentence.
		Baudelaire's prose poem "The bad glazier" is a marvelous example of the imp of the perverse; after a discourse on personality and action, a man calls a glazier up to his fourth-story apartment.
		This delightfully perverse sensibility is one of the prose poem's distinguishing characteristics.
	www.webdelsol.com /InPosse/barenblat.htm (1539 words)

	Prose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prose is writing distinguished from poetry by its greater variety of rhythm and its closer resemblance to the patterns of everyday speech.
		Prose generally lacks the formal structure of meter or rhyme that is often found in poetry.
		Although some works of prose may happen to contain traces of metrical structure or versification, a conscious blend of the two forms of literature is known as a prose poem.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prose (927 words)

	Poetry Previews: What's a Prose Poem?
		Although the prose poem resembles a short piece of prose, its allegiance to poetry can be seen in the use of rhythms, figures of speech, rhyme, internal rhyme, assonance (repetition of similar vowel sounds), consonance (repetition of similar consonant sounds), and images.
		Among contemporary practitioners of the prose poem are: Russell Edson, Robert Bly, Charles Simic, and Rosmarie Waldrop.
		Delville shows that the history of the contemporary prose poem is, in many respects, the record of its efforts to question both the nature of the "poetic" or "lyric" mode and the aesthetic and ideological foundations of a variety of other genres and subgenres.
	www.poetrypreviews.com /poets/prosepoem.html (718 words)

	Prose Poem: An Alternative to Verse, The American Poetry Review, The - Find Articles
		Simpson objected to The Monument on the grounds that it is predominantly in prose.
		The writing was not self-consciously "poetic." On the contrary, the prose of these poems-one might say their "prosaic" nature if a pejorative valence did not hang over that word-was crucial to their success.
		The prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3692/is_200303/ai_n9221098 (836 words)

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		A prose poem is a specific form of poetry, and like all other poetic forms, is best used when its particular expressive qualities support the poem's meaning.
		Next, owing more to Baudelaire, whose prose poems were frequently constructed as paragraph-long sentences without the grace of commas, are the pieces which are intended to be breathless.
		Some contemporary prose poems, such as those written by Lyn Hejinian, may be best understood as riffs, one line taking its inspiration from the former, creating in effect, a personal renga.
	www.triplopia.org /inside.cfm/ct/369 (1038 words)

	Prose Poem: An Alternative to Verse, The American Poetry Review, The - Find Articles
		In the 1970s, the prose poem afforded a means to depart or dissent from what that "single hack" was producing.
		Certainly the prose poem in the United States today is not as predictably unpredictable, in part because it has loosened its ties to the French tradition.
		That this argument can be derived from a reading of Gertrude Stein is but one reason for considering her the mother of the American prose poem (as Poe, through his influence on Baudelaire, was an uncle of the French prose poem).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3692/is_200303/ai_n9221098/pg_7 (552 words)

	Interview with Robert Bly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		We could say that in a prose poem one can practice writing about an animal or "thing" in a way that wouldn't be hierarchical, in which one wouldn't place human beings on top and animals on the bottom.
		He wouldn't consider the New Prose Poem to be like the prose poetry of French Symbolism, yet I know from editing my journal that many poets associated with that school consider their prose pieces to be prose poems.
		The poem is a warning to readers and to writers, and it works so well because of its shifts in thought, especially the huge transition signaled by "But" in the second paragraph.
	www.poems.com /blyinter.htm (6654 words)

	TEXT Vol 6 No 2 Letters and Debate- The Prose Poem
		Certainly as a technique, the prose poem continues to attract Australian poets and there are a considerable number of book-length collections that have been published here.
		One consequence of the relative neglect of the prose poem in English is its lasting presence as a subversive and alternative poetic tradition: a permanent shadow thrown by the dominance of free verse; a niggling outsider; an exotic and possibly decadent third way somewhere between prose and poetry.
		Anna Gibbs noted in her paper on feminism and fictocriticism (Text October 1997): http://www.gu.edu.au/school/art/text/oct97/gibbs.htm, that the prose poem is one of the 'indeterminate forms' of 'literary detritus' that fictocriticism makes use of.
	www.gu.edu.au /school/art/text/oct02/letters.htm (3125 words)

	Symbolism The Development of the Modern Prose Poem in Symbolist Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Symbolism and the Modern Prose Poem One of the many lasting influences of the symbolist movement on international literature can be seen in the development of the modern prose poem during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
		Prose poetry is written in the form of prose, yet maintains the lyrical language use, suggestive imagery, and thematic sensibilities of poetry.
		The formal properties of the prose poem are intended to liberate verse from traditional requirements of metrical form and line breaks.
	www.enotes.com /symbolism/31103 (239 words)

	The Prose Poem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Prose Poem: An International Journal is was first published in 1996 and is updated annually.
		This poem is about an old man who eats porridge as he waits for the three bears to come home.
		Although they don't want to say that they can define "prose poetry," they do expect their contributors to at least know the difference between verse and prose poetry, so that writers don't waste their time and postage.
	www.usd.edu /~engl283/Spring1998/ezines/e2.html (633 words)

	The Prose Poem. Michael Benedikt--Brief Prose Poems & Critical Prose (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Prose Poem, which avoids by degree (but not by kind) various strictly formal devices of rhymed verse, and which emphasizes an approach more naturally consistent with the inward or "associational" turnings of the human psyche--the mind's fondness for dream-like creations of metaphor in particular--seems an ideal vehicle for such sophisticated, psychologically realistic, esthetic aspirations.
		A: I believe that fewer writers of prose poems are abusing the medium of poetry than are some of the disreputable poetasters who have only their manipulation of the line-break to offer, and who've slipped in among the many writers of breadth composing "end-stopped" rhyming verse.
		Because the prose poem's medium is prose--a medium used for all sorts of things, from literature with a capital "L" to newspapers and advertisements and love-notes and laundry lists--the Prose Poem encourages a tremendous flexibility of dictional, imagistic, and tonal approach.
	members.aol.com.cob-web.org:8888 /benedit4 (7667 words)

	The Prose Poem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As David Lehman, in his “Introduction” to Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present (2003) writes: “The prose poem is a hybrid form, an anomaly if not a paradox or an oxymoron.” This course proposes to look at the elements of what constitutes the genre of the prose poem.
		These unifying frames clash with the subversive counter frame of the fragmentary genre to which the prose poem in general and the paratext-driven prose poem in particular could be argued to belong.
		When Charles Simic writes: “The prose poem is a result of two contradictory impulses, prose and poetry, and therefore cannot exist, but it does”, and “The prose poem is a burst of language following a collision with a large piece of furniture” he establishes a tension between genre and its constraints.
	home1.stofanet.dk /cameliaelias/prose-poem.html (387 words)

	Max Winter: The American Prose Poem and The Tormented Mirror
		Although prose poems defy easy classification—they are, as the name indicates, neither entirely verse nor entirely prose—their public recognition has grown with their appearance in a growing number of anthologies and other collections.
		The American Prose Poem argues that the prose poem is a medium for the transgression of genre rules, for experiment and literary change.
		His poems do abide by Delville's conception of prose poetry as a forum in which artists can cross genre boundaries and even mix those genres, and the subversive content of his work may suit the transgressive nature of the prose poem.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR27.1/winter.html (1855 words)

	The Prose Poem - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Strengths are in abundance; the traditional prose poem tends to be absurdist yet darkly moving, fabulist yet subversive of narrative, and relatively short, all of which Anderson employs to great effect in poems such as "The Somnabulists' Hotel," "The Pregnant Teapot," or "Life on the Moon" ("Like anyplace else, it has its problems").
		It should be no surprise that "language poets" as well as lyric poets are attracted to the prose poem: if the key mechanism of verse is the line, then the key element of prose might be said to be syntax, and the prose poem offers a limitless field in which to experiment and play.
		It is no accident that the prose poem has been so powerfully adopted by surrealists and their kin, and Prevallet's work celebrates this association by turning the in-between nature of the prose poem toward her subject matter.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/1999summer/prosepoem.shtml (1606 words)

	The Prose Poem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The term `prose poem' is something of an oxymoron, since we associate poetry with the ressources of verse (rhyme, metre etc.).
		However, since the middle of the nineteenth century, the prose poem emerged as a popular form of writing.
		Prose poems tend to be short and autonomous.
	www.sunderland.ac.uk /~os0tmc/chemin/prose.htm (185 words)

	University Press of Florida: The American Prose Poem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Michel Delville's book is the first full-length work to provide a critical and historical survey of the American prose poem from the early years of the 20th century to the 1990s.
		By applying a broad range of theory to the history of the prose poem, Delville adds evidence to its reputation as a norm-breaking form by writing within, against, and across existing genres and traditions.
		He shows that the history of the contemporary prose poem is, in many respects, the record of its efforts to question both the nature of the "poetic" or "lyric" mode and the aesthetic and ideological foundations of a variety of other genres and subgenres.
	www.upf.com /book.asp?id=DELVIS98 (295 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - Poetic Form: Prose Poem (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The prose poem can range in length from a few lines to several pages long, and it may explore a limitless array of styles and subjects.
		Though examples of prose passages in poetic texts can be found in early Bible translations and the Lyrical Ballads of William Wordsworth, the form is most often traced to nineteenth-century French symbolists writers.
		There are several anthologies devoted to the prose poem, including Traffic: New and Selected Prose Poems and Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, as well as the study of the form in The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundries of Genre.
	www.poets.org.cob-web.org:8888 /viewmedia.php/prmMID/5787 (507 words)

	Eldritch Dark Forum :: E.R. Eddison prose poem
		Unfortunately, this is the only prose poem I know of by ERE (from the annotations of an edition of the Zimiamvian trilogy from 1992).
		Although most of them are not prose poems per se, nor are they "weird" (with the possible exception of The Castle of Argol), I cannot recommend highly enough the works of the contemporary--although he's well into his nineties--French author Julien Gracq.
		Despite his working in prose and (nominally) in the novel form, I consider Gracq to be perhaps the finest poet of the Twentieth Century.
	www.eldritchdark.com /forum/read.php?1,978,1012,quote=1 (502 words)

	Prose Poem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A poetry freed from the definition of poetry, and a prose free of the necessities of fiction.
		A prose that is a cast-iron aeroplane that can actually fly, mainly because the pilot doesn't seem to care if it does or not.
		"A good prose poem is a statement that seeks sanity whilst it's author teeters on the edge of the abyss.
	www.public.asu.edu /~aarios/formsofverse/anecdotes/page10.html (320 words)

	Amazon.com: The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre: Books: Michel Delville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Deville's book is an excellent history of the prose poem from Baudelaire to Stein to as well as a close study of important figures in the prose poem such as Russel Edson, Robert Bly, and Charles Simic.
		Michel Delville argues that the twentieth-century American prose poem ought not to be regarded as merely a piece of ornamented, poeticized prose but rather as a negotiation of the boundaries of lyric, narrative, expository, and speculative genres.
		Perhaps one of the strengths of contemporary prose poems, and of Delville's valuable analysis of them, is that they encourage us to rethink and to refeel our relationship to the postindustrial overflow of signs.
	www.amazon.com /American-Prose-Poem-Poetic-Boundaries/dp/0813018595 (1118 words)

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		Poems will be selected purely on editorial decision.
		In other words, if your poem wins 1st, 2nd, 3rd Place or Honorable Mention, you forfeit one-time, non-exclusive publication rights to your piece, copyright to remain with the author.
		By submitting to this contest, you also guarantee that your poem is an original work, written, revised and bled over by you.
	www.triplopia.org /inside.cfm/ct/330 (306 words)

	Prose poems
		Sometimes it merely echoes the sonic organisation (as in sonnets); sometimes (as in shape poems) the appearance has a meaning for the eye but not the ear; sometimes words are in a 2-dimensional arrangement (the white space speaks); and sometimes the text is a script for performance, the line-breaks showing where to breathe.
		Some outlets are resistant to prose poems so poets tend to disguise their prose poetry.
		The Prose Poem: An International Journal is a specialist magazine, as is Paragraph.
	www2.eng.cam.ac.uk /~tpl/texts/prosepoems.html (918 words)

	* Prose Poetry *
		Prose poetry is poetry written as prose, in other words it is a hybrid form combining poetry and prose.
		The poem has all of the essential elements of traditional poetry written in verse.
		Prose Poetry expresses experiences that enrich the soul.I hope you enjoy the experience.
	pw2.netcom.com /~pprater/prosepoetry.html (651 words)

	Prose - Associated Content
		This poem is all about the craze behind power and how people can misuse this great tool.
		This poem looks at the point just before that questions would be answered.
		This particular poem details Lone Wolf's decision to fight in the war that he and his beloved had fled from previously.
	www.associatedcontent.com /prose (1338 words)

	Marjorie Perloff on Haraldo de Campos
		The poem is a good example of the reduction Waldrop speaks of: it has only eight different words (the count is 4 x 3 + 4 = 16), and its syntax is minimal, there being no connectives relating paired nouns and adjectives.
		The subgenre of prose poetry represented by Tates piece is that of the sardonic fable, the seemingly casual little tale that leads up to an ironic epiphanyin this case the reality of motherhood that deflates the childs dream.
		The Stein influence on the prose poem, which would be the subject of another essay, has to do with the way repetition and permutation of monosyllabic and disyllabic words creates visual as well as verbal patterning.
	epc.buffalo.edu /authors/perloff/perloff_decampos.html (5707 words)

	Poets Online Archive - The Prose Poem
		, is a genre in the poetic spectrum between free verse and prose.
		The Prose Poem: An International Journal states in its submission guidelines: "Although we don't want to say that we can define "prose poetry," we do expect our contributors to at least know the difference between verse and prose poetry, so that they don't waste their time and postage.
		Before trying your hand at this form prompt (where the topic is not the point), try reading a few more prose poems at the The Prose Poem site.
	web.njit.edu /~ronkowit/poetsonline/archive/arch_prose.htm (1338 words)

	Prose Poem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Currently, there is a prose poem renaissance in this country.
		Two new anthologies on prose poetry have recently appeared, and two out of the last five Pulitzer Prize winners in poetry have written substantially in the propose poem genre.
		Students will be responsible for a ten-age paper on some aspect of prose poetry (due at the end of the semester), and they also will hand in a short portfolio of their own poetry.
	www.providence.edu /eng/courses/Prose.html (180 words)

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