"Imploded sentence" works

Bernstein, 59, refers to "poems, in prose / formats, whose syntax spirals / outward in an open-/ended way"
 
Footnote: "Among other works I am thinking of Coolidge's Quartz Hearts & Weathers; Christopher Dewdney's Spring Traces in the Control Emerald Night; Peter Seaton's The Son Master, Crisis Intervention, & Piranesi Pointed Up; James Sherry's Popular Fiction; George-Therese Dickenson's Tranducing; Jerry Estrin's In Motion Speaking; Abigail Child's From Solids; Lynne Dreyer's White Museum; the prose wrks in Diane Ward's Never Without One; & a number of Steve Benson's performance transcriptions"

> from Charles Bernstein's A Poetics (1992)

> tagged with #investigate, #to read, #prose poetry, #poetry

> created created Feb 10, 2025 at 2:08:35 PM


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