I am aware of the encyclopedic knowledge that lives on this thread-->so here's my question:
I have encountered a few poems lately that run in the same style that Joyce Carol Oates employs in the poem The Stone Well from the collections of poems entitled <u>Tenderness</u>.
It (the poem) was first published in Virginia Quarterly Review. The second strophe begins with "This is the well..." The next sixteen lines begin the same way.
I know there is a term for this style of poetry. Some have mistakenly (I think) called it a type of list poem.
Would it not be more along the lines of "folk" poetry/ or "oral" poetry?
Thank you for indulging my curiosity.
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