Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-95.145.155.227-20171125234745/@comment-28349479-20171213215626

Borisashton wrote: It is my belief that the short stories and the narrative poems should be considered valid as they clearly tell a story so are narrative. It is also my opinion that stories told from a first-person perspective also be given validity because it portrays one's thoughts (and one's thoughts are rarely narrative) but I have been unable to find a precedent for such an occasion as this. I agree with this analysis completely. I found a possible precedent for allowing first-person perspectives: the novella PROSE: Time and Relative is written and formatted as Susan's journal, and therefore written entirely in the first person from her perspective. This includes some narratives about her day, but also lots of bits that are just her thoughts and feelings; I think this is very analogous to the first-person poems in this collection, which should be similarly valid.

Does anyone disagree with this assessment? Even if so, I think the next step is running through and sorting each poem into the five categories.