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Gwynn: Other than VN,
the only case that comes to mind in which a novelist has performed the not
incosiderable feat of the former and provided the actual poetry is that of
Anthony Burgess, who was, of course, as good a poet as he was a writer of
prose. There may be other examples, but none comes to mind.>
E.L. Doctorow's Loon Lake
(1980) features a poet, Warren Penfield, and chunks of his
poetry are liberally distributed over the novel. I read this book too
long ago, in fact in the mirabilic year of 1984, to pass any
judgement, but I do recall that the poetry struck me as rather prosaic, very
much like that of many poets of the second half of the 20th
century.
A. Bouazza.