The Relaxed Snowman
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Prose Poem or Verse?
posted Saturday, 26 June 2010
Eventually very pleased that someone has seen fit to publish an old piece of mine: SIMPLY SICK AGAIN - first published in Not Dead, But Dreaming (1996): http://poemsandprose.blog.co.uk/2010/06/26/the-final-stitch-in-the-tapestry-8866488/
It was attributed to 'DF Lewis' but the publisher had not been able to find anything about 'DF Lewis' - until I told him in the comments to his publication of my piece.
It also originally stated that my piece was "not great verse" (a wording since removed regrettably from the site).
'Regrettably' because it stirred in my mind some interesting thoughts about story, fiction, prose, prose poem, poem, verse.
The piece is indeed 'not great verse', as I understand the word 'verse'. But with its ostensibly clumsy enjambement it gives the appearance of prose chopped up arbitrarily - a bit like the nauseous choppiness of sickness itself?
Perhaps this unusual arbitrary chopping method creates a prose 'poem' in its truest sense. It is also fiction or story. It is also a vignette. But not verse!
Having just re-read it for the first time after a long period, I find it to be a very strange, yet effective, work!
Thanks to the kind gentleman who thought fit to publish this work without knowing anything about what lay behind the authorship: only a name or nemonym.
comments (1)
1. Weirdmonger left...
Saturday, 26 June 2010 1:23 pm
Perhaps a new form has been invented: the prose verse? Proverse? Proserse?
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