The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem So to Speak in a specific place

in a specific place

and flowers and butterflies are the poet’s interlocutors

Deep yellow endpapers

in de tussenwereld waar zijn hersenen defect zijn en de diagnose nog niet is gesteld

where meaning zooms into clarity then retreats

The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem So to Speak in a specific placeJeremy Noel Tod, editor The last decades have seen an explosion of the prose poem. More and more writers are turning to this peculiarly rich and flexible form; it defines Claudia Rankine's Citizen, one of the most talked about books of recent years, and many others, such as Sarah Howe's Loop of Jade and Vahni Capildeo's Measures of Expatriation, make extensive use of it. Yet this fertile mode which in its time has drawn the likes of Charles