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That book has short chapters, but is essentially a prosey bibliography in case you desire further reading.
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I've been working on a prosey Q & A poem to answer, and I guess tie in various different voices and poetic "why's" to finish off my thesis, so I was delighted with your interview form.
How Poems Work Lemon Hound 2009
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Maybe poets just like to get a little respect from us more prosey-types.
Archive 2005-07-01 Richard Nokes 2005
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Maybe poets just like to get a little respect from us more prosey-types.
Dion's Three Types of Blogs Richard Nokes 2005
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This is a presidential campaign and unless we want Kerry to turn into Adlai Stevenson Redux, any prosey calls for decency will not be on the menu.
Hullabaloo 2004
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We used to think that these were prosey, stoggy, flat-footed days, but there is any amount of adventure -- from the fields of Flanders to the mountains of Colombia -- even the Spanish main has had its rebirth.
Letters of Franklin K. Lane Franklin Knight Lane 1892
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The most prominent fault, after what we consider rather an uninteresting and prosey beginning, is his miserable attempts at wit; his genuine humorousness -- his keen sense of the ludicrous seem to have forsaken him.
North Carolina University Magazine, Volume 1 Number 1, February 1852 1861
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Everyone's got an opinion about the poem read yesterday, the vast majority of them (at least in print) seem to say it was too prosey for the occasion.
Bookninja 2009
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Yet what Arnold perceived to be the weaknesses of Clough's poetry are precisely what, over time, have come to seem its strengths: a prosey colloquiality which at times verges on awkwardness, a preference for honesty and sarcasm over suavity and tact, a direct criticism of modern life, a naming of things as themselves.
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009
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i have autobio pieces na na rendered as vertical passages across two-page spreads, or postcard prosey things (with photos) as well as just really normal essays na sobrang well-written lang and not self-centered light flimsy burgis stuff, which all screams “new” for me.
New Genre Review: Call for Submissions « BAHAY TALINHAGA 2009
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And what about that overly long opener from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Surely we can boil that down a bit: “Everyone knows that rich, single men want to get married.” We encourage readers to identify similar prosey passages in need of AI-assisted simplification.
Can AI make novels better? Not if these attempts are anything to go by New Scientist 2025
notanotherjazzpoet commented on the word prosey
a criticism. To a prose writer, not so much.
February 19, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word prosey
what's wrong with prose poetry?
February 19, 2007
notanotherjazzpoet commented on the word prosey
prose poetry isn't the same as prosey poetry. One means the poet has chosen to do away with lineation; the other means the poet's not practicing the economy with words common to poetry.
That's only my opinion, though.
February 19, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word prosey
I see. I like that distinction.
February 19, 2007
seanahan commented on the word prosey
There is nothing wrong with prose poetry, but a poem to be called prosey is an insult if you were trying to write a poem. Most people don't set out to write prose poetry.
February 19, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word prosey
That's mostly what I write.
February 19, 2007