WAXING POETIC #2: “Slam, Dunk, & Hook”
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”
Poetry privileges subjectivity. It foregrounds the interior life of the writer, who is trying to draw in a reader. And it gets readers into contact with their own subjective life.