Know any List Poems?

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Please help me find any list poems you may know of so I can read a couple to my workshop group. Thanks!

-- Catherine O'Neill Thorn (oneillpub@earthlink.net), June 01, 1999

Answers

Long bits of "The Illiad," pick your favorite Walt Whitman poem ("Song of Myself"), Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," to name famous and canonical examples. The list is a technique very much in vogue this century, but most often quoted in prose (Joyce, Sorrentino).

-- John O'Connell (oconnell@siam.org), June 02, 1999.

Hmmm. I guess the long and the short of it is, any poem that reads like a list! The list can begin with a verb or a "list" of verbs: I miss the way you held your face to the starlight at dusk I miss the feel of your hand on my thigh I miss.... or Breath in the deep musk of autumn Rub the scattered seeds into dust Become the crisp shell of moon as it turns old and dies...

Or even a list of things that are similar, dissimilar, etc. Any sort of list, really. After all, it is poetry!

-- Catherine O'Neill Thorn (oneillpub@earthlink.net), June 01, 1999.


what is a 'list'poem /

-- Maud Kennedy (Maud@earthlink.net), June 01, 1999.

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