IT IS usually dangerous for anyone whose gift is one art to attempt to follow another. The pitfalls of following poetry when your gift is prose are obvious enough to ...
Mario Cuomo once famously remarked, "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." This metaphor, highlighting the shift from rhetoric to reality, applies to various contexts. A good example is the ...
They say a politician campaigns in poetry and governs in prose. They might also say, less poetically, that a politician campaigns in his dreams and governs after waking. Voters tend to value eloquence ...
You don’t have to know how to spell to write poetry. You can be rather loose in your syntax as far as I am concerned. You don’t have to know how to punctuate at all. Poe has nothing but dashes in his ...
Somewhere between the hack writer living off the slicks and the "divine afflatus" genius penning prose lyrics incomprehensible to all but himself, lies the elusive middle road that all young writers ...
When Brad Leithauser, now a professor in the Writing Seminars, came across an article about Iceland in 1984—years before the country's emergence in the late 1990s as a hip tourist spot—he knew he had ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By David Orr SYNTHESIZING GRAVITY Selected Prose By Kay Ryan There’s something tricky about ...
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