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cryptonarrative
I like this prose poem by Anthony Tognazzini: "I'd Heard She Had A Deconstructive Personality."
But I especially like what he says in this brief interview:
"[T]he central unique characteristic of [prose poems and flash fiction], for me, is their ability to bridge gaps and absences, to imply and provide connections between seemingly disparate elements, to create connections where none seemed previously to exist. In conventional narrative the gaps between events and ideas are overtly linked through plain exposition; in conventional poetry the gaps are represented spatially and symbolically on the page. But in pp/ff we are locked in a box with the things of life, and no instruction manual save our proximity to these things, and the implication that they somehow fit together."
I love this description, and am currently involved in attempting to write a piece of fiction that does the same thing, only over the course of a novel-length manuscript. This is part of what I mean when I refer to "cryptonarrative."
Tognazzini's poem, and Double Room, the journal of flash fiction and prose poetry that contains it, were found via Ron Silliman. Labels: writing |
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
9:00 PM
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