Tag: Linda Pastan
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* the 200th post: a cento
Well, it had to happen: we’ve reached the 200th post on this blog! To celebrate, I decided to create a cento – a patchwork poem made by selecting lines from other people’s poems to create a singular poem (citing one’s sources, of course) – by going through all the posts published since I started this…
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* bangin’ on the kitchen table with Jay-Z & Linda Pastan
The above example of scansion is a good example of where my mind’s been at past few days. I’ve been and will be writing with an eye (and ear and heart) towards meter, mainly for a class, but more than the class, there is an inner drive to grow stronger in this regard. Throughout the…
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* Linda Pastan, apples & the friday influence
This week on the Influence: Linda Pastan! What moves me about the lyric below is how it follows the turns of simple tone and lets the subtleties gleam. What does that mean? Peep the line: maybe the wind would wind itself – with its alliterative w’s, but also how the word wind turns over in meaning and pronunciations from noun to verb, seamlessly.…
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