Goodbye blank space

I've never posted to this blog, even though I've had it for awhile now. I wanted to post an excerpt from something Geoffrey Dyer wrote about prose poems on the website for the journal Double Room:

Ultimately, operating in one primary form is a choice, and that choice reflects for the artist a suitability of purpose. Prose poems are willfully beautiful from their content, the shapes of the objects they evoke, the places that the reader sets those objects on their own mental canvas. The easy casting off of line breaks allows for a smooth transaction/reversal between builder, material, and user. The fact that the essential formal material itself—words, punctuation marks, the occasional paragraph—are as rudimentary as writing, only makes the non-architecture of the prose poem more inhabitable, familiar, interchangeable, and functional. John Cage examined Jasper Johns’ Flag using the metaphor of a table. The table’s surface, he says, “stimulates the tendency to do something. . .. The result is nothing special. It looks as though something had been tried and had been found to work: to have many uses, not focusing attention but letting attention focus itself” (1).

1. From the catalog of the Jasper Johns exhibition, The Jewish Museum, New York, 1964.

I like this prose poem by Geoffrey Dyer. I've been thinking a lot about prose poems lately.