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1 electronic resource (40 pages) |
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data file rda |
| Summary |
The sestina is a form in which words repeat regularly, intricately, appearing and reappearing in new contexts with new meanings. Sam Lohmann's Unless As Stone Is emerged from a few years of living with Dante's sestina, "Al poco giorno e al gran cerchio d'ombra." He allowed the text to appear in its own new -- if irregularly scheduled -- contexts. New translations, new scenery, new meanings; new phrases entered the poem (from García Lorca, from Sappho, from strangers and from loved ones) and found their own patterns. What resulted is a serial poem in seven movements, incorporating several strategies of reincorporation. "Quandunque i colli fanno più nera ombra" -- "All our oddity operates / on changing verity." |
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English. |
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Literature (General)
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French literature -- Italian literature -- Spanish literature -- Portuguese literature.
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Poetry by individual poets.
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poetry, poetics, sestina, Dante, Sappho, García Lorca |
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Directory of open access books.
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