KOPI BREAK ORDER #020 — Czander Tan: “Manila Skyline”
When a writer labels a work that resembles prose as poetry, they’re suggesting the work be evaluated in the court of poetry rather than that of prose. Pay less attention to plot, narrative and other prosaic devices, and instead the building blocks of poetry: sound, rhythm, and, most importantly, image, the sensory details conjured in our minds.
KOPI BREAK ORDER #020 — Czander Tan: “Manila Skyline”
on wtf is prose poetry—and also: “If a line break truncates a thought into sizable chunks, using pauses to mediate the reading experience, this poem wants us not to pause, to quickly take in…”