If you're enjoying this interview, please support us by donating a small amount. The form services those concerns really well. It’s called Gertrude’s Gifts. When I first read her “Spring Day” (1916), I thought wow, there’s a whole other side of Imagism here which is prose poetry, and it’s almost never mentioned. Five Books aims to keep its book recommendations and interviews up to date. . The Best Prose Poetry recommended by Jeremy Noel-Tod It's not quite poetry, yet not quite prose: the prose poem is “the defining poetic invention of modernity,” argues Jeremy Noel-Tod, editor of The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem. So, with the caveat that it’s existed in some form or another as long as literature has—like Ovid’s self-styled “loose song” or “loose poem” speeches or Lucian’s history, which he called “prosaic poetry”—the prose poem begins in late nineteenth-century France? Read. As soon as you start to make language, then you begin to introduce all the elements that poetry heightens. It’s saying: I’m too tired to use any of the devices that you might associate with lyric poetry. Read Three important studies that come to mind, for example, are by women: Marguerite S. Murphy, Nikki Santilli and, most recently, Jane Monson. Tried rhyme, tried truth, tried epistolary untruth, tried and tried.”. Tender Buttons in particular was the book that made her notorious. But other parts are extended and rhapsodic, like “Roastbeef”. Read. . There’s also Amy Lowell, who was almost totally forgotten because Pound won the propaganda battle to claim Imagism as this sort of pared-down free verse, whereas Lowell was developing what she called ‘polyphonic prose’, which is full of exuberant music and imagery. The pronoun barely holding the person together . Some of Baudelaire’s prose poems, for example, first appeared as feuilletons, literary snippets in a daily newspaper. She’s challenging that and how it has dominated the idea of the ‘American lyric’: Lowell, as a privileged white man, has been able to do such a thing, to make such a full and open confession of himself. He was a union representative who went on strike and later joined the Communist Party—and then during the war, the Resistance. Her lyricism wants to establish an interiority. And: Where do you draw the line? Which is difficult for the anthologist, obviously. 4 But over the course of the book, it’s full of devices, in that artful sense. There’s the same brisk, confident, shorthand precision. “It’s been suggested that Stein might have been stoned when she wrote Tender Buttons”. . I think shape-shifting is right for Citizen. Because prose poetry often comes from the margins of the literary canon, scholarship on the prose poem perhaps has a slightly better-than-average track record here. The focus has been on its vignettes of everyday micro-aggressions, not its more extended argument. But then they become accepted as a classic, and everybody forgets what it’s like when they were irritating. It has this effect on you that nobody has ever quite managed to put into words. Stéphane Mallarmé—one of the French poets who responds to Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris, alternatively titled Petits Poèmes en Prose (1869)—says, rather brilliantly, that there is the alphabet, and then there is versification. You can’t read Tender Buttons easily. . It has other places in mind.
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