[stylist] free verse poems Some info I found for you

[Ashley Bramlett]

Vejas,
Maxine wrote a memoir about her life both in china  and here. It’s a bit 
confusing the way she wrote it. Each chapter is its own story.
Also, the second chapter is her view, first person, but really about a 
legend she was told.
I'm not sure which other books she wrote, but the book I know of is her 
memoir called Woman Warrior, memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts.

Ashley

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What kind of novels does Maxine Hong Kingston write?
This is the second time I've heard of her.  I read The Joy Luck
Club by Amy Tan for English class and have to write an essay on
it, and one reviewer online said that Amy Tan and Maxine Hong
Kingston are similar writers.
Vejas

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Donna,

Yes, it's called lyrical prose or poetic prose.  It's commonly
used in
essay and memoir writing, but fiction writers use this style as
well.
Two writers who frequently use this style, and two of my favorite
writers, are Annie Dillard and Maxine Hong Kingston.  I often
attempt a
lyrical style myself.

In lyrical prose, there's an emphasis on using imagery and
metaphor
along with adopting a poetic voice, which leans heavily on
sensory
descriptions.

I also find little time to work on creative writing.  Between
Declan,
chores and other endeavors, my own creative writing finds little
time to
bloom.  On days I have free-time, I am usually exhausted and need
a
moment to rest instead of doing anything else.  I do read a lot,
and I
believe reading is a great way to keep a writers mind in tact,
but
nonetheless, I do wish I had more time for creative writing.  I
do a lot
of PR writing myself for others including S & S, but when it
comes to my
own personal writing, the time isn't always there.

Bridgit

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Donna
Hill
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Myrna,
I like the "prose poetry" description.  I seem to remember
Bridgit
commenting many moons ago about a form of writing that
encompassed both
prose and poetry.  Perhaps she will be so kind as to refresh my
memory.

I don't get to do much of what we call "creative" writing these
days;
between Rich being sick for so long and me trying to promote my
novel,
my creativity (such as it is) gets funneled into trying to write
press
material that would interest someone to either review or buy the
book.
That said, the one thing I am drawn back to is a poem of sorts
that I've
been editing for over a year.  It has parts that are definitely
poetry in
the classic sense (rhythm & rhyme), parts that seem more like
free verse
poetry and others that are actually dialog -- and not the William
Shakespeare style that meets the definition of poetry.  It's
important to
me in some way but I don't know what it is or what to do with it.
Donna

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I found this information for you on the poetry and prose
question...  I
hope it helps.  The free verse question I am still working on...
I have
found over  my years of writing that the opinions on this vary
greatly
and each source will give you a slightly different definition or
one
that is totally  confusing.  Myrna

Prose vs.  Poetry Definition
Poetry noun
    1.  the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for
exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated
thoughts.
    2.  literary work in metrical form; verse.
Poetry is language spoken or written according to some pattern of
recurrence that emphasises relationships between words on the
basis of
sound as well as meaning.  This pattern is almost always a rhythm
or
metre (regular pattern of sound units).  This pattern may be
supplemented
by ornamentation such as rhyme or alliteration or both.

Prose
noun
    1.  the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without
metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
    2.  matter-of-fact, commonplace, or dull expression, quality,
discourse, etc.  Prose is the form of written language that is
not
organised according  to formal patterns of verse.  It may have
some sort
of rhythm and some devices of  repetition and balance, but these
are not
governed by regularly sustained formal  arrangement.  The
significant
unit is the sentence, not the line.  Hence it is  represented
without
line breaks in writing.  Prose Poetry
_Prose poetry_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose_poetry)   is
poetry
written in prose instead of using verse but preserving poetic
qualities
such as heightened imagery and emotional effects.  It can be
considered
primarily poetry or prose, or a separate genre altogether.  While
prose
poetry in  the West originated in the 19th century, it has gain
more
popularity since the 1980s.




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