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recommended: theodore worozbyt

Ah, the prose poem. Whatfore art thou, prose poem? I know your Worozbyt variety. All kinetic and image and running running running to more image. You're usually darker though, Mr. Worozbyt. Yes, that was in Letters of Transit. Now, this, "How I Love You," from the Winter 2008/2009 issue of Iowa Review. How you say energy, tireless, inexhaustible energy.

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recommended: dave snyder

Bravo to bamboo, and bamboo blooming more bamboo, for bamboo that gets tread under the feet. Does that make it less appetizing for greedy, greedy pandas hungering the bamboo? Dave Snyder should answer. We should demand an answer! He won the Iowa Review Award for Poetry, and his "Bamboo Poem" is so beautiful lovely it could answer any question we think of. It's about Bamboo!

Take it from me. I'm the super keen critical mode when I read poems that won a prize. Is it valuing a poem for money? I don't know. But this poem deserves more prizes. This poem, appearing in the Winter 2008/2009 issue of Iowa Review deserves lots of prizes. All prize "Bamboo Poem"!!

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