About a year and a half ago, an acquaintance of mine gave me a thin volume of poetry by Yannis Ritsos, a Greek writer. The book is called Monochords, and the premise is simple: each poem is only one sentence long and presented in prose-poem form. Such a project is challenging, to be sure. But Ritsos navigates the difficulties well, styling each poem very carefully. And best of all, he even acknowledges the limitations of poetry and--more importantly, I think--language itself: "All the words are not enough to get anything said."
Buy through Porter Square Books for $15.00.
-Cate-
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