Rosmarie Waldrop : The Nick of Time
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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How Do You Write Prose Poems?
i thought we could start with a couple aspects of your work that run through much of your work, to orient listeners who may be encountering your work as a poet for the first time. And the first is the prose poem. You started out writing in lines, but for many decades, your work has mainly been in prose poetry. So i thought this would be a great place to tell us why prose poetry has captivated you in such an enduring way as a poet. Well, as you said, i started was like writing rusfom's lineated poems. For a long time, i did one particular trick, i try to have the the object of one sentence flip into being the
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