“Is”

D. W. Cunningham created “Is” from James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922). Please click here to read.

About the poem and the process of composing it, D. W. Cunningham writes:

I took a 46-word paragraph from episode 3 in Joyce’s Ulysses and rearranged those 46 words (no more, no fewer) into a poem. The restriction and changes allowed me to realize some things about prose vs. poetry—issues such as the effects around narrative thrust or its absence.