How to Use prose poem in a Sentence
prose poem
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In some of Cook's 100 succinct prose poems, the flip-flopper is the poet's mind.
—Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2017
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At times, the novel feels like a prose poem but also somewhat slow and overwritten.
—Diane Scharper, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
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Algren wrote a dreamy, unstable prose poem about the city, people, the corruption, the pessimism, his own most of all.
—chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2020
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Sylvie tells her absent lover, in the prose poems of this startlingly intimate début.
—The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2019
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It is mostly written in prose poem with large spaces between phrases that act as line breaks.
—Elizabeth Hoover Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
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This lyrical piece for soprano soloist with orchestra sets a prose poem by James Agee, in which a young boy recalls the sights and sounds of a lazy summer evening.
—Jessica Rudman, courant.com, 9 June 2018
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During the past few years, Rafferty has been focusing on prose poems.
—courant.com, 18 July 2019
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Janet Mock contributed a manifesto of sorts, while Yrsa Daley-Ward’s ad is a prose poem.
—New York Times, 9 Mar. 2021
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His narratives are often closer to prose poems than to short stories, much less novels.
—The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
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Very quickly O’Meara’s 113-word prose poem became a communal beacon of hope, attracting the attention of Oprah and opera and thousands more.
—Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
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Very quickly O'Meara's 113-word prose poem became a communal beacon of hope, attracting the attention of Oprah and opera and thousands more.
—Nora Krug, Star Tribune, 8 Feb. 2021
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Unsurprisingly, this prose poem of stripper life went viral.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 25 June 2021
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Together, these pieces illustrate Harrison’s range and his ease with various formats, from lyric poems to meditative suites to prose poems.
—Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post, 24 June 2019
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This final collection is made up of headlong prose poems that amount to sly — and heartbreaking — metaphysical parables about mortality.
—New York Times, 20 Aug. 2019
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This stunning arrangement of prose poems and short lyric essays constitutes both a memoir of the author’s life as student and teacher and an insider’s critique of our educational system.
—David James, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2019
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The result is a book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, hilarious and, eventually, deeply moving.
—New York Times, 30 Nov. 2021
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These starkly succinct poems and prose poems map a powerful constellation of becoming.
—Diana Marie Delgado, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2019
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Much of Kaufman’s work was prose poetry, and Woodberry’s film, too, is a devoted, impassioned prose poem, in which biography and history are fused with imaginative and illuminating renderings of Kaufman’s life and art.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 June 2020
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