Elizabeth Bishop
1911 - 1979Further Resources
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Villanelles
Info on the poetic form of the villanelle: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/villanelle-poetic-form Because of the complex repetition of lines, it has been suggested that the villanelle is often used to deal with obsession and that the relationship between repeated lines creates a feeling of dislocation and “a paradigm for schizophrenia.” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanelle
View playlistPoems for Long-Distance Longing
"I want you and you are not here." Over the past year, my LA-based love and I have been sending each other songs (her) and poems (me) to help bridge the intermittent distance between us. These are some of the poems.
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An old and long-admired traditional poetic form, the sestina performs a certain feeling in its haunting quality of repetition, that uncanny feeling of déjà vu, and in the strange sincerity and magnetized compulsion of the 'again'.
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