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Dec 27, 2005 11:13

Parisian SceneBy Adam Ahmed ( Read more... )

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goodfoot08 December 27 2005, 20:03:37 UTC
I like your recent prose poems.

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mizraim December 27 2005, 20:23:58 UTC
Thank you!

I didn't intend them to be prose poems. But I guess they do have a narrative arc and the line breaks aren't all that important.

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goodfoot08 December 27 2005, 20:33:04 UTC
It occurred to me after I sent the comment that they really weren't, or didn't have to be, prose poems. My bad assumption. But I do like the thought processes. The narrative arc you refer to involves choices that are interesting because they surprise.

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mizraim December 27 2005, 20:43:34 UTC
Yea. I'm mainly influenced by John Ashbery and Frank O' Hara right now, the poems I post before these were more James Schuyler/Robert Creeley inspired. So I'm glad you noticed and liked the thought processes. Have you read much Ashbery?

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goodfoot08 December 28 2005, 02:56:42 UTC
I haven't read much Ashbery. I note that people tend to roll their eyes when they say his name. :) I like O'Hara and the Ashbery I was scanning to remind me of what little I know did suggest the narrative arc you refer to. He apparently claims to be in what I would call the deliberately oblique school of non-surrealists. Which may be my half-baked label for the New York School. I better stick to simple enjoying your work and I keep reading him too.

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