Some poets have ventured even further into the no man´s land between prose and poetry with prose poems. Hill´s “Mercian Hymns” may look like prose, but the poet insists that his lines are to be printed exactly as they appear (on the book)… and the reader´s ear will detect musical cadences no less linked and flowing than in good free verse. Eye and ear together… are never more dramatically engaged than in the reading of such shaped poems as Herbert´s “Easter Wings” and Hollander´s “Swan and Shadow”. songosmeltingpot.blogspot/2011/06/open-forms-or-free-verse-jon.html
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