What I appreciate the most about June Jordan’s book is her lovely use of poetry within prose. The dialogue flows well and I don’t like quotation marks myself so I am glad that she chose not to use them. I feel like the book is basically the author sitting across from me in some sort [...]
Posts Tagged ‘raccoon’
one long poem. yeah.
Posted in Soldier, poetry, smartypants of the week, tagged dog, kitten, lovers, raccoon, trance on March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
How to use the space on the page to…
Posted in Soldier, tagged muff, page breaks, raccoon, section, Shirley Temple, transition on March 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
…do what exactly?
In Three Dog Life, Thomas used traditional page breaks to introduce new topics within a chapter. Of the memoirs we have read thus far, the spacing in the first was the most traditional and easy to follow. Vivian Gornick also used page breaks to indicate a change in topic, time , or place. [...]
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