free verse
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Two six-minute compositions in the middle of “Ocean Blvd,” though, test the limits of Del Rey’s penchant for free verse.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2023
Tanikawa is among Japan’s most famous modern poets, and a master of free verse on the everyday.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2022
Its 12 poems were written in free verse, meaning they didn’t rhyme.
From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2022
An astonishing statement, this, given that Pound is himself arguably the greatest free verse poet in the language!
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2022
Feeling for the first time that I could speak to listening ears, I wrote a wild, crude poem in free verse, coining images of black hands playing, working, holding bayonets, stiffening finally in death ...
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
