Ever since I read a translation of Dante's LA VITA NUOVA when I was a teenager, I've loved books that mix poetry and prose, and even did that myself in several of my own books—ROCKY DIES YELLOW, CATCH MY BREATH, JUST LET ME DO IT, ATTITUDE, HOLLYWOOD MAGIC, OF—and mixed the prose up too, like essays, memoirs, fiction, etc. with poetry in IT'S NOT NOSTALGIA and IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE.
The other night I made a list in my head of my top five favorite books that mix poetry and prose:
Jean Toomer's CANE
William Carlos Williams' PATERSON
Gary Snyder's EARTH HOUSE HOLD
James Haining's A QUINCY HISTORY
Michael McClure's SCRATCHING THE BEAT SURFACE
I know there's many more but that's all I came up with.
*But just as I was falling asleep I thought of three more:
Dianne Di Prima's DINNERS AND NIGHTMARES
Eileen Myles' INFERNO
Yvonne De La Vega's TOMORROW, YVONNE
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