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Distillations: Repeating Forms
The act of repetition is one of the paradoxes of poetry. In the confined world of a poem, what is the use of redundancy? However wasteful it may seem, there are many poetry forms built around obligatory patterns of repetition. In this column, we will explore two rather different forms, the villanelle and the triolet, […]
Continue ReadingAstropoetica 5.1 Spring/Summer 2007
Astropoetica 5.1 (Spring/Summer 2007) is the latest issue of this poetry-only webzine. The subtitle reads “mapping the stars through poetry,” which is evidently intended to make a statement about the purpose of the magazine. If so, the statement is rather cryptic, because only about half of the poems are really about astronomy. […]
Continue ReadingDistillations: An Introduction
Welcome to Distillations, a monthly review of Speculative Poetry. The field of Speculative Poetry embraces every subgenre of science fiction and fantasy imaginable in every existing poetry form, plus some made up fresh for the occasion. What it doesn’t include is a lot of words. That means that every letter, every piece of punctuation, […]
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