One of my favorite things about prose poetry anthologies is the introductory essay. It’s usually a great place for a deep dive into the poetics of prose poems. I’ve done all this research so you don’t have to!

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The prose poem is a very special invention, like a chair that flies or a small dish that produces food for forty a people. In turning to it the poet seems to put aside the discreet or flamboyant costume of poetic identity and, in a swift and unpredictable gesture, raid the other world, the world of prose… subverting categories and definitions, defying the drag of the prosaic, turning everything inside out for a moment.
— David Young

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