IT IS usually dangerous for anyone whose gift is one art to attempt to follow another. The pitfalls of following poetry when your gift is prose are obvious enough to ...
American prose poetry—a tradition extending from Robert Bly to Lyn Hejinian—has finally come into its own. Although prose poems defy easy classification—they are, as the name indicates, neither ...
On Lawrence Rainey’s scholarly new edition of The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose. Most innovatively, Rainey includes ten prose pieces that Eliot published during the composition ...
My love affair with poetry began as a slow simmer — I long considered myself strictly a prose type of gal, leaving the iambic pentametric musings to what I imagined were elbow-patch-wearing and ...
Prose poetry is a literary form that combines elements of prose and poetry to create a unique narrative voice and style. It appears as standard prose, without line breaks, but utilizes poetic devices ...
“Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose” by Jefferson Navicky; Deerbrook Editions, Cumberland, Maine, 2021; 104 pages, paperback, $18.50. In the introduction to his ...
The critic William Hazlitt (1778–1830), known best in his lifetime for his writing on Shakespeare, was a jack of all trades and a master of none too few, trying his deft hand at painting, philosophy, ...