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His 1987 prose poem, Memory for Forgetfulness, takes place during the 1982 shelling of Beirut, using the narrator’s personal experiences of fear and isolation as a stand-in for the historical experiences of the Palestinian people.
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Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 8 Aug. 2025
His writings until then—including the automatic prose poem The Magnetic Fields, the essay collection The Lost Steps, and the Manifesto of Surrealism, which officially launched the movement in October 1924—were so many facets of an approach to living, one shared by Breton and his comrades in arms.
—Mark Polizzoti
june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
The decision to end the story with a kind of prose poem about the life of the lake was both intuitive and technical.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Some of the essays in Cellophane Bricks are easy to follow, though just as many of the pieces read like impressionistic prose poems or refracted flights of fancy that connect to their subject matter in obscure ways.
—Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 10 Dec. 2024
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Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 8 Aug. 2025
His writings until then—including the automatic prose poem The Magnetic Fields, the essay collection The Lost Steps, and the Manifesto of Surrealism, which officially launched the movement in October 1924—were so many facets of an approach to living, one shared by Breton and his comrades in arms.
—Mark Polizzoti
june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
The decision to end the story with a kind of prose poem about the life of the lake was both intuitive and technical.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Some of the essays in Cellophane Bricks are easy to follow, though just as many of the pieces read like impressionistic prose poems or refracted flights of fancy that connect to their subject matter in obscure ways.
—Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 10 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for prose poem
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“Prose poem.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prose%20poem. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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