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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77828124 The Known World (Paperback) by Edward P. Jones
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/226509-verse-broadens-the-mind-scientists-find Andrew made a comment in the ¡ POETRY ! group:

Danse Russe is by William Carlos Williams. Great poem. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/232309-please-vote-for-november-s-goodreads-poem Andrew made a comment in the ¡ POETRY ! group:

Ivy, the reason this debate has gone on so long is that you use language like "prose poets" and "not true poetry." Gregory and David J used the same kind of language, "the only true poetry" "real poetry" "what they do is prose" etc.

If you ask me, for one, and I think many other people here:

Why isn't there more rhymed poetry in this group?

The answer wont be "because it isn't real poetry" or "because what you write isn't poetry" or "what you think you know about poetry is false".

You might get: because rhymed poetry is old fashioned. Because rhymed poetry is outdated. Because rhymed poetry is too conservative.

The only reason the debate has been as emotional as it has been and has gone on as long as it has is because you and other members of the rhymed orthodox branch
deride and dismiss what the rest of us do and care about.

I don't write prose poetry. I don't write false poetry. I am not a "poet."
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76202472 Ruth's review of Les Fleurs Du Mal
by Charles Baudelaire

I prefer Mallarme and Rimbaud but I do like Baudelaire. I think of Fleurs du Mal as one of the originating works of modernism, along with Madame Bovary, Moby Dick and Leaves of Grass. All four came out within a few years of each other. Paris Spleen, Baudelaire's book of prose poems, is pretty cool too. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76955014 Autobiography of Red (Paperback) by Anne Carson
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76613735 The American Civil War: A Military History (Hardcover) by John Keegan
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