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  • noun Alternative form of prose poem.

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Examples

  • In the back of my mind, I envisioned a couple of his poems featured as a sidebar, maybe a sequence of prose-poem aphorisms from The Lords to drive home how relevant and "now" he could be.

    When You're Strange: Jim Morrison, Great American Poet? 2011

  • The information on 'poetry' I have to advertize, is a bardic prose-poem attributed to Amergin and translated into English first, 1300 years after its composition by an anonymous bard, without title: 'the cauldron of poetry', so called because of the metaphorical conceit in the piece, of poetry being created in a person's three internal cauldrons: Warming, Motion & Wisdom.

    Poetry: a beautiful renaissance 2011

  • So it seemed, as when his readers turned to the prose-poem “The Riddle of the Sphinx,” in which Du Bois cried out:

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • “My ritual is the dinner party;” she writes in her prose-poem “Dinner on the Mowing,” “... my church the chicken, my guests my minyan.”

    We Remember - Miriam Goodman, 1938 - 2008 2010

  • Most notably, several people came over to us expressly to get a hold of David Jones's highly-allusive modernist prose-poem memoir of World War I, In Parenthesis.

    A Different Stripe: 2008

  • By inclination, Barber seems to have gravitated to writing for the voice, as in his second most famous work, the haunting "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," based on a prose-poem by James Agee, and a signature piece for the soprano Leontyne Price.

    Thomas Larson's 'The Saddest Music Ever Written,' reviewed by Michael Dirda 2010

  • Most notably, several people came over to us expressly to get a hold of David Jones's highly-allusive modernist prose-poem memoir of World War I, In Parenthesis.

    Big at the AWP, David Jones 2008

  • By inclination, Barber seems to have gravitated to writing for the voice, as in his second most famous work, the haunting "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," based on a prose-poem by James Agee, and a signature piece for the soprano Leontyne Price.

    Thomas Larson's 'The Saddest Music Ever Written,' reviewed by Michael Dirda 2010

  • And as his inability to come up with anything new to say about this country builds, his prose will grow more complex, emotive, gothic, desperate, overheated and nebulous until finally, about two-thirds of the way through, there will be a prose-poem of pure meaninglessness as his brilliance finally breaks loose from the tethers of observation and oozes across the page in a great, gopping goo of pure pretension.

    The Dangers of Brilliance 2009

  • Note: This prose-poem guest column was written by Orlando Luis Pardo who was kidnapped and beaten together with me on the evening of November 6.

    Yoani Sanchez: "Tell Yoani to Shut Up" 2009

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