free verse
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Tanikawa is among Japan’s most famous modern poets, and a master of free verse on the everyday.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2022
This idea of the free verse poem as “chopped” prose comes from Ezra Pound via Marjorie Perloff, who quotes Pound in her influential essay “The Linear Fallacy,” published in 1981.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022
The essay encourages an oddly suspicious, even paranoid reading of most free verse as phony poetry, as prose in costume.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022
Her riddles interleave what reads like a sociological thesis told in free verse.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2021
“Looks kind of like free verse, doesn’t it?”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
