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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, where words appear at the end of the line in a prescribed order, 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, editor Daniel Nester has 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.
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- Sherman Alexie, "The Business of Fancydancing"
- Shane Allison, "Mother Worries"
- Steve Almond, "Sestina for Elton John"
- Scott Edward Anderson, "Second Skin"
- Alan Ansen, "A Fit of Something Against Something"
- Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, "Sestina for Shappy, Who Doesn't Get Enough Love Poems"
- John Ashbery, "Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape," "Faust"
- W.H. Auden, "Paysage Moralisé"
- Sandra Beasley, "Let Me Count the Waves," "The Editor of Encyclopedia Britannica Regrets Everything"
- Jeanne Marie Beaumont, "A Stein's Sestina"
- Aaron Belz, "Pam"
- Tara Betts, "Sestina for the Sin"
- Elizabeth Bishop, "A Miracle for Breakfast," "Sestina"
- Star Black, "Hi Yo"
- Paula Bohince, "Allegory of the Leopard"
- Jenny Boully, "Sestina of Missed Connections"
- Geoff Bouvier, "Refining Sestina"
- Catherine Bowman, "Mr. X"
- Derrick C. Brown, "They Loved You and Your Title, But It All Telegraphed Too Much"
- Stephen Burt, "Six Kinds of Noodles"
- Casey Camp, "A Poem on the Severe Awesomeness of John Zorn"
- Jenna Cardinale, "Beyond January"
- Patricia Carlin, "Lives of the Conquerors"
- Shanna Compton, "The Remarried Again Sestina"
- Jeffery Conway, "Is It Dancing?"
- Alfred Corn, "Pound-Eliot Sestina"
- Michael Costello, "A Series"
- Laura Cronk, "Sestina for a Sister"
- James Cummins, "#17 from The Whole Truth," "David Lehman and Jim Cummins Do Their Part After the World Trade Center Disaster"
- Peter Davis, "Mustache Sestina"
- Sharon Dolin, "Praying Mantis in Brooklyn," "Reluctant Sestina"
- Denise Duhamel, "The Brady Bunch (A Double Sestina)," "On Delta Flight 659 with Sean Penn"
- Drew Gardner, "Sestina: AltaVista"
- Dana Gioia, "My Confessional Sestina"
- Sarah Green, "Metamorphic Sestina"
- Beth Gylys, "Not An Affair, A Sestina," "The Scene"
- Marilyn Hacker, "Untoward Occurrence at Embassy Poetry Reading"
- Donald Hall, "Sestina"
- James Harms, "One Long Sentence and a Few Short Ones; or, 39 Lines by Frank Gehry"
- Brooks Haxton, "Posttraumatic Small-Talk Disorder"
- Anthony Hecht, "The Book of Yolek"
- Brian Henry, "Bad Apple"
- Scott Hightower, "Cruising a Hungry World"
- Ernest Hilbert, "Hel[l]ical Double Sestina: [Metal Number One]"
- Elizabeth Hildreth, "In a Rut"
- Paul Hoover, "Sestina from Sonnet 56"
- John Hoppenthaler, "Coconut Octopus"
- Sonya Huber, "Dear Thrasher"
- Victor D. Infante, "Six Portraits in Disintegration"
- Kent Johnson, "Sestina: Avantforte"
- Donald Justice, "Here in Katmandu"
- Meg Kearney, "14th Street"
- Weldon Kees, "Sestina: Travel Notes"
- Lynn Kilpatrick, "Francis Bacon Sestina"
- Kenneth Koch & John Ashbery, "Crone Rhapsody"
- Noelle Kocot, "Why We Go to Couple's Counseling"
- Leonard Kress, "Miss New Jersey"
- Quraysh Ali Lansana, "homemade"
- Joan Larkin, "Jewish Food"
- David Lehman, "The Old Constellation" and "Operation Memory"
- Eric LeMay, "The Sestina Of O"
- Brendan Lorber, "Luck Is the Thing We Are Shit Out Of"
- Matt Madden, "The Six Treasures of the Spiral: A Comics Sestina"
- Paul Mariani, "The Great Wheel"
- Nate Marshall, "pallbearers (a sestina)"
- Harry Mathews, "Histoire"
- Florence Cassen Mayers, "All-American Sestina," "July Idyll"
- Marty McConnell, "one possible explanation of my utter and rather surprising lack of an adolescent tomboy phase"
- James Merrill, "Tomorrows"
- Sharon Mesmer, "Super Rooster Killer Assault Kit"
- Anis Mojgani, "They raised violins"
- Rick Moody, "Radio Sestina"
- Carley Moore, "Mechanics"
- Lenard D. Moore, "A Quiet Rhythm of Sleep"
- Jeffrey Morgan, "When Unreal Girlfriends Die: The Manti Te'o Sestina"
- Tomás Q. Morín, "Canso of the Dancing Bears"
- Paul Muldoon, "The Last Time I Saw Chris"
- Amanda Nadelberg, "My New Pet Word Is Mozzarella"
- Marilyn Nelson, "Two Masters"
- Ethan Paquin, "Oratio Moderna"
- Richard Peabody, "Spaghetti Western Sestina"
- Kiki Petrosino, "Crusaders"
- Carl Phillips, "Birdland"
- Ezra Pound, "Sestina: Altaforte"
- Michael Quattrone, "Ticker"
- Ned Rust, "Prophetic Sestina"
- Carly Sachs, "Indecent Docent, Sex-Deprived Tina"
- Michael Schiavo, "Be Careful, Cortelyou, How You Tell Her"
- Lawrence Schimel, "Endless Sestina"
- Jason Schneiderman, "The Buffy Sestina"
- Esther Schor, "Sestina: Tegucigalpa"
- Ravi Shankar, "How Duggan Knew"
- Peter Jay Shippy, "The Lyricist and His Rock Star"
- Rachel Shukert, "Subterranean Gnomesick Blues; or, The Gnome Who Whet My Fleshy Tent"
- Patricia Smith, "Looking to See How the Eyes Inhabit the Dark. Wondering about Light."
- Jay Snodgrass, "Judas Priest"
- Sparrow, "Cowboys"
- Heidi Lynn Staples, "Embryonic Sestina"
- Mark Strand, "Chekhov: A Sestina"
- Chris Stroffolino, "In Memory of My Rock Band: Sestina"
- Jade Sylvan, "Facebook Sestina"
- David Trinidad, "Detective Notes," "Playing with Dolls"
- Quincy Troupe, "Sestina for 39 Silent Angels"
- Lewis Turco, "The Vision"
- Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody, "Señora Mamacita"
- Laura Van Prooyen, "Lenten Sestina"
- Anne Waldman, "How the Sestina (Yawn) Works"
- Miller Williams, "The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina"
- Jonah Winter, "Sestina: Bob," "Sestina: A Cowboy's Diary"
- Louis Zukofsky, "Mantis"
A whole book of sestinas? Are you freaking kidding me?
We know. Hear us out.
The sestina is one of the world's oldest literary forms. It's also one of the most tricked-out and wacky: six words appear at the end of 39 lines over the course of six, six-line stanzas and a three-line finale. Since it was invented 700 years ago, people keep writing them.
Why? Because of the challenge it presents poets to experiment with a six-pack of words and a spiral-based secret code hidden inside.
For The Incredible Sestina Anthology, poet and editor Daniel Nester has brought together more than 100 sestinas. Here, in all their glory, are poets from all schools and stripes who have taken the sestina challenge, from Sherman Alexie to Louis Zukofsky and everywhere in between:
With comments from contributors that take us "Behind the Sestina," The Incredible Sestina Anthology is a greatest hits collection of this incredible form.
We know. Hear us out.
The sestina is one of the world's oldest literary forms. It's also one of the most tricked-out and wacky: six words appear at the end of 39 lines over the course of six, six-line stanzas and a three-line finale. Since it was invented 700 years ago, people keep writing them.
Why? Because of the challenge it presents poets to experiment with a six-pack of words and a spiral-based secret code hidden inside.
For The Incredible Sestina Anthology, poet and editor Daniel Nester has brought together more than 100 sestinas. Here, in all their glory, are poets from all schools and stripes who have taken the sestina challenge, from Sherman Alexie to Louis Zukofsky and everywhere in between:
- sestina classics from John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Ezra Pound, Anthony Hecht, Donald Justice, and Marilyn Hacker
- modern masterpieces from David Lehman, Patricia Smith, James Cummins, Sandra Beasley, Quincy Troupe and Anne Waldman
- double sestinas from Denise Duhamel, Ernest Hilbert and Star Black
- Matt Madden and Casey Camp's comics sestina
- Florence Cassen Mayers's minimalist takes
- Jonah Winter's world-famous "Bob" sestina
- selections from Nester's picks as sestinas editor at McSweeney's Internet Tendency, from Rick Moody, David Trinidad, Rachel Shukert, Alfred Corn and Steve Almond
- and much, much more!
With comments from contributors that take us "Behind the Sestina," The Incredible Sestina Anthology is a greatest hits collection of this incredible form.
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