| The Incredible Sestina Anthology Contributor(s): Nester, Daniel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1938912365 ISBN-13: 9781938912368 Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.008 |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 5.52" W x 8.54" (0.91 lbs) 334 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: More than 800 years after its invention in medieval France, the sestina survives and thrives in English. A fixed 39-line poetic form with of six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a three- line stanza known as an envoi, tornada, or tercet, the sestina is the one form of poetry that poets from all camps agree can exist in a free verse world. Formalists and avant-gardes love sestinas for their ornate, maddeningly complicated rules of word repetition. For The Incredible Sestinas Anthology, editor Daniel Nester has gathered more than 100 writers-from John Ashbery to David Lehman to Matt Madden and Patricia Smith-to show the sestina in its many incarnations: prose and comic sestinas, collaborative and double sestinas, from masters of the form to brilliant one-off attempts, all to show its evolution and the possibilities of this dynamic form. |