Unless As Stone Is

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." 9780615983929 0615983928 40 BOOK English literature NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4u6ozgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Sam Lohmann
• | Publisher: Punctum Books
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 40 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0615983928
• | ISBN-13: 9780615983929