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Prayer on bus

Prayer on bus Laura Kasischke "I wrote the first of a number of semiprose poems while possessed of an odd idea: that I was writing a kind of table and also writing things to put on the table, so I could see both the table and the things. I decided that I wanted a sturdier poem than the ones I'd been writing--a poem like that table, but maybe more like a box strong enough to contain some facts, as well as dreams, but with some holes through which the dreams and facts could escape. I thought such a poem would need to be uninhibited by line breaks, but I found `freedom' difficult. Prose has as many expectations and rules binding it as free verse, maybe more. But these table-box poems were all I could write at the time. I just kept at it in a small notebook, mostly in the mornings before my husband and son had gotten up or the day had officially started, through some very clumsy stuff, until I felt I'd broken out poetry of my narrative-prose impulses into something else, and then I read this quote from Baudelaire: `Which of us, in his moments of ambition, has http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Missouri Review University of Missouri

Prayer on bus

Kasischke, Laura
The Missouri Review , Volume 30 (1) – Apr 25, 2007
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Laura Kasischke "I wrote the first of a number of semiprose poems while possessed of an odd idea: that I was writing a kind of table and also writing things to put on the table, so I could see both the table and the things. I decided that I wanted a sturdier poem than the ones I'd been writing--a poem like that table, but maybe more like a box strong enough to contain some facts, as well as dreams, but with some holes through which the dreams and facts could escape. I thought such a poem would need to be uninhibited by line breaks, but I found `freedom' difficult. Prose has as many expectations and rules binding it as free verse, maybe more. But these table-box poems were all I could write at the time. I just kept at it in a small notebook, mostly in the mornings before my husband and son had gotten up or the day had officially started, through some very clumsy stuff, until I felt I'd broken out poetry of my narrative-prose impulses into something else, and then I read this quote from Baudelaire: `Which of us, in his moments of ambition, has

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Published: Apr 25, 2007

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