Cirrus@Austlit

'According to the late Charles Simic, ‘The prose poem is the result of two contradictory impulses, prose and poetry, and therefore cannot exist, but it does’. Simic was perhaps gesturing towards a tradition of prose poetry where other contradictions also come to the fore: the kind of contradictions that arise, for example, when we try to tease apart or combine dream and reality, fiction and nonfiction, self and other, beauty and horror, reason and the irrational.' (Introduction)