The Incredible Sestina Anthology

The Incredible Sestina Anthology

More than 800 years after its invention in medieval France, the sestina survives and thrives in English. A fixed, 39-line poetic form of six, six-line stanzas followed by a three-line stanza called an envoi,Â where words appear at the end of the line in a prescribed order,Â the sestina is a form of poetry that all camps agree can exist in a free verse world. Formalists and avant-gardes alike love the sestina for its ornate, maddeningly complicated rule of repetition. For The Incredible Sestinas Anthology, the first-ever anthology of this form,Â editor Daniel Nester hasÂ gathered more than 100 writers--from John Ashbery and 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.
Country USA
Brand Write Bloody Publishing
Manufacturer Write Bloody Publishing
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate 2013-10-20
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781938912368

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