Since its inception in 1992, 'The Prose Poem' has published work which even the writers themselves cannot define without restoring the metaphor. Russell Edson likens prose poems to 'cast iron aeroplanes that can actually fly', while Charles Simic states that writing them is like "trying to catch a fly in a dark room. The fly probably isn't even there...You keep tripping over and bumping into things in hot pursuit." Nonetheless, Johnson knows a prose poem when he reads one. Better still, he recognises a good one and has included many of them here.
- ISBN10 1893996085
- ISBN13 9781893996083
- Publish Date 1 January 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 January 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint White Pine Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 270
- Language English