micropoem en · NOUN
Etymology
From micro- + poem.
Meanings
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A very short poem.
As the book's final micropoem tells us: Unerzählt / bleibt die Geschichte / der abgewandten / Gesichter. “Unrecounted / remains the story / of the averted / faces.”
2010, Ruth Franklin, A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 198:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| micropoems | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| micro-poem | alternative | lexicographic |