Marie Harris

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The Party Train

The Party Train
$18.95
  • Publisher: New Rivers Press
  • Editor: Robert Alexander, Mark Vinz & C.W. Truesdale
  • ISBN: 0-89823-165-5
  • Published: January 12, 1996
White Pine catalogue

A Collection of North American Prose Poetry

Prose poems by 144 poets trace this genre in North America from Nathanial Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau to poets just beginning their careers. Many writers best-known for their fiction, including Hemingway and Faulkner, are included, as are many poets whose prose poetry is a lesser known part of their work.
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“The Party Train proves that the prose poem not only has been thriving in North America for years, but has also developing its own distinctly American characteristics … for North American prose poetry the definitive anthology.” – Peter Johnson

 

Passing Time

     If I had a boat,

     I’d go out on the ocean.

     If I had a pony,

     I’d ride him on my boat…

                     Lyle Lovett

…and in this manner confront the accumulated terrors of half a century while still having fun–an admirable pursuit that is, perforce, always limned by fear and colored in exigencies particular to the piloted vehicle (e.g. boat: in a microburst, otherwise called a “white gale” for its sudden disruption of an unstormy sea, back the jib, reef the main and keep it close-hauled while running before the wind until the craft os released; horse: try to intuit the cause of its momentary panic, idle her powerful engines of muscle and quiet the pounding of the blood). How I prefer a chosen end: me upon my pony on my boat.


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A Poet for Your Bookshelf, Classroom, or Library

Welcome! Come on in and browse through my books of poetry, anthologies I’ve edited and in which my poems appear, and some essays and articles on subjects ranging from blue water sailing to New England farm stays to birding. You can also find photos of my collaborations with painters, sculptors, photographers and musicians. Listen to audio clips of a sampling of my voiceover work.

As a poet, I perform and teach at colleges & universities throughout the country, and in residencies in elementary and high schools, libraries, writers’ workshops and retreats, and senior centers. Read More…

Words in Progress

Walking Song

WALKING SONG …reminding herself that she was only an elderly woman who had got up too early in the morning and journeyed too far, that the despair creeping over her was merely her despair, her personal weakness, and that even if she got a sunstroke and went mad the rest of the world would go […]

My Brother is Gone from Us

Basil Harris (pictured with sister Anne, summer 2016) He died today. Farewell, sweet singer.

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