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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"prose poems"”.
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Collections: Essays & Prose Poems
Personal essays and memoir essays about home, family, inheritance, the West, the spaces we choose to inhabit, and the ones that come to us.
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Collections: Essays & Prose Poems
Personal essays and memoir essays about home, family, inheritance, the West, the spaces we choose to inhabit, and the ones that come to us.
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Walkups : documentaries and commentary : a series of prose poems
Walkups is a series of linked narrative prose poems set in various Montreal apartments. Titled after the outdoor "walkup" staircases typical of Montreal's row-house architecture, these pieces take the reader on a tour of some of the city's apartments, providing glimpses into the ways in which our …
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The rule of contraction: a manuscript of sequential prose poems with an introduction
The prose poem is a hybrid form firmly rooted in 19th century French literary tradition, and later adopted by British and American poets. Questions as to genre arise when critically assessing possible formulaic divisions demonstrated by various techniques and tropes within fiction and poetry. The …
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Aguila o sol? A Riffaterrian analysis of the prose poems of Octavio Paz
… a collection of three books of surrealistic prose poems to which critics have paid little attention. The methodology employed is the model Michael Riffaterre presented in Semiotics of Poetry. Chapter 1 contains historical background on the prose poem, a summary of Paz's theories of poetics …
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Making Faces
… <em>Making Faces</em>, is a book of prose poems investigating the work of portrait composition as it might be achieved through poetry. The prose poems in <em>Making Faces</em> explore how written expressions of people might be built poetically through—listing, paradox, rhythmic and …
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The maps of our bodies and the borders we have agreed upon
These linked poems and prose poems deal thematically with cartography the mapping of territories, relationships, bodies, self. They are maps and meditations on traversing space, both physically and emotionally. The narrator, in exploring desires, relationships, bodies, and acts of travel (as …
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Unstill Life: Poems
UNSTILL LIFE: POEMS is a collection of poetry written and/or revised during my time at Missouri State University. The collection comments on region, landscape, family, and romantic love, focusing much of its attention on the small upstate New York town, Nunda. Many of the poems also comment on …
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All Feathers and Attitude
<p>This collection of essays and prose poems seeks to examine the elements of an identity: how memories, culture, work, place, family, and brain chemistry simultaneously create and undermine a sense of self. How the sense of self is not contiguous, or smooth. How hope and regret wrestle.</p> …
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Mapping the Dream: A Poetics of Remembering
… California. The book is comprised of sequenced prose poems to map specific cultural, aesthetic, and environmental sensory details that return to haunt and compel to be transformed into writing, and a way to honor deeply-rooted dreams. The writer's poetics statement delves into influences on her …
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Crafting Prose Poetry. A Comparative Study of Alfonsina Storni’s and José Ángel Valente’s Creative Journeys
… examination of the creative journeys through prose poetry made by two twentieth-century, Spanish-language poets: Alfonsina Storni from Argentina and José Ángel Valente from Spain. While extensive research has been carried out on their versified poetry, only a couple of studies specifically …
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Skateboard Jesus
… person free verse, containing in addition some prose poems and other forms harder to categorize. The poetry in this collection is largely narrative in structure, and engages with themes of identity and performance as objects of its larger concern, often filtered through the lens of music. In …
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Scrimshaw
… is a work of fiction composed of prose vignettes and prose poems, ‘translations’ of photographs and films, and assimilated/appropriated texts—all of which trace one troubled family’s century-spanning story as it attempts to inhabit the unstable space of memory. The fragmentary …
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Shadowgraph and Zoltan's food
<p>The two collections of poems in this work, Shadowgraph and Zoltan's Food, demonstrate the role inheritance plays in the lives of those underrepresented in the annals of American and world history. Shadowgraph is comprised of autobiographical lyric poems that revolve around the author's struggles …
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Capital
<p><em>Capital</em> is a collection of twenty-one poems that explore and contemplate the people, history, and "place" of Columbia, South Carolina. The poems range in form, from tanka and other brief impressionistic/imagist poems to lengthier "jazz" or prose poems, as well as in …
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Dinner For One
… navigational elements in Dinner for One and the prose poems written as postcards to oneself an others reinforce the notion of travel. The fortunes from Chinese cookies give prophecies and horoscopes, reminding us of our fate, which is beyond our conrol. Dinner For One means to question, through …
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All the Clawed Feet of Winged Gods
… Loop,” as the title of two of her “Experiment” poems reflect. A mix of free verse, erasure, and prose poems, all sectioned by visual echoes, lead the reader from start to finish through the collection, bookended by two hard hitting lyric essays—the first setting the tone and the last offering no …
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Divining the Silhouette (poetry)
… and influences, essential to her becoming. The poems within the collection serve as a teaching tool, offering a model—one model—of how able-bodied people may interact more effectively with disabled people, offering glimpses of what works and what doesn’t, of what to do and what not to do, and …
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Gritting Teeth: A Memoir of Unhealthy Love
… tackles the subject of marriage via fragmented prose poems— “Gritting Teeth: A Memoir of Unhealthy Love” is a piece that has taken on a subject and form of its own. A memoirist like Vivian Gornick might not claim the writer’s piece, as it hesitates to offer a “story” in places. A memoirist like …
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Wager
… the collection varies widely, including list poems, persona poems, prose poems, poems in a series, ultra-talk poems and highly lyrical pieces. The speaker is a playful and brutally introspective poet who writes about loss with an empowered female voice, and Wager showcases the complications of …
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