…while poems often proceed by way of large imaginative leaps, I found that prose urged me to stay put longer and extrapolate more.
At Guernica, Christopher Kondrich and Tracy K. Smith talk about differences between poetry and prose, and writing grief and memory in Smith’s memoir Ordinary Light. Smith describes how she toggles between genres, constantly coaxing and questioning the speaker, the “I.”
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