Tuesday, May 13, 2008

News at Eleven: But if prose poems are so obviously great,

why exactly do the British disparage them?

"There are actually plenty of British who write them," [Gary] Young explained, "but they think of it as a French form."

Ah, there's the rub: the experimental French came up with the form!

from Santa Cruz Sentinel: Chris Watson, Bookends: The prose poem in California

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