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This thread is for comments on The Elongated Years, by Bruce Boston.
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Simon Owens
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Pretty cool poem.
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JPW
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Tricky. I'm not sure I would call it a poem. Flash fiction, perhaps; but a poem? Whatever it was, it was entertaining enough to read.
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Bruce B.
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Thanks for the good words. I rather like this one myself. I'd call it a flash fiction, but I have no objection to it being published as a prose poem.
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MorningStar
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Whatever it is, I loved this one. Of course, it's longer than what I'm used to from Boston, but its vocabulary is much like what I see in his poems in Asimov's -- clever humor mixed with poignant insights.
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Anonymous
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"The Elongated Years" has many of the qualities that I enjoyed in Boston's free verse, but I wasn't distracted by seemingly arbitrary line breaks; punctuation, sentences, and paragraphs handle the pacing here, and it works.
As with "Ossuary," I'm grateful. Here is a prose poem instead of free verse, and there was a poem with rhyme and meter. It's almost as though my arguments made sense, and these poems were written and published in response. When I go to which doctor and have my head shrunk, I'm sure he'll convince me that this was not the case. Until then, I'll labor under this fantasy and enjoy the poems.
--José
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Anonymous
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Quote:
Thanks for the good words. I rather like this one myself. I'd call it a flash fiction, but I have no objection to it being published as a prose poem.
Without wishing to argue with the person who wrote it, I rather liked the idea that it was a poem with elongated lines ... Form mirroring content, and all that. Especially given the way the lines grew shorter towards the end.
(bthogg, not bothering to sign in)
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heyzeus321
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It spoke truth to me. The dullness of going through the motions week in and week out can make 2 weeks seem like a day.
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