That Bukowski poem is not actually a poem, which is probably its point. It's a sentence broken up into lots of lines.
Begging the question - what is a poem?
That Bukowski poem is not actually a poem, which is probably its point. It's a sentence broken up into lots of lines.
Or: Joyce wasn't a very good poet, so he wrote Ulysses. Eliot couldn't write prose as naturally and beautifully as Joyce. Even his lit crit essays are constipated.
Well, as soon as you get away from actual poetic forms, rhyme, meter, etc., there is no line between prose and poetry. From my way of thinking, many poets are simply lazy prose writers. I can take a page of descriptive prose and break it into lines, as I've done in Exterminator!, and then you've got a poem. Call it a poem.
- William Burroughs
It'd be like taking a Britney song and breaking it down into keys and measures and modulations and harmonics and telling you exactly when she goes off pitch or doesn't quite hit a note. Does anyone really care?
well, and then there are prose poems by the likes of gertrude stein and charles simic----poetry written in the shape of prose
bukowski has a handful of great poems discouraging people from writing poems
while i agree with him, it hardly seems necessary
who do you know who even reads? much less write. i mean really?!