Comments | kdotdammit: Loaded (A Sestina)

kdotdammit

Loaded (A Sestina)

Feb 09, 2012 15:41

I continue to be inspired to write in sestinas. I really love the discipline of the form. This one took me HOURS and I do mean HOURS to write. I love writing in the confines and discipline of the form of a sestina. It forces me to see things differently, to rethink how I write, to explore new rhythms, phrasing, and seeing, to carve and craft, work ( Read more... )

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seamusd February 9 2012, 23:58:40 UTC

Love your sestina! I never did the sestina assignment in my first poetry workshop back in 1982 (David Wojahn was the teacher), and I haven't tried to write one since. Now you have me thinking.....

kdotdammit February 12 2012, 07:29:55 UTC

I'm really hooked on the form. It's so beautiful. Try one! I want to read what you do with it!

duccio February 10 2012, 00:27:08 UTC

Your sestina is pretty cool. I don't think I had ever heard of the form before you mentioned it the other day. Tell me, when you shoot at the cards, do they flutter at all, I mean, is there any breeze, breath, that animates them? I was thinking maybe you could have the cards dangle from single strings so they have some movement, and might bob and twirl evasively as you take aim. After all, that is more or less how these phantoms operate: dangling out there in the either, and twirling maddeningly, as if they consider themselves ornaments of our dark careers. Flashing, weaving, shuffling, persisting; and they are always difficult to take aim at and eradicate.

Annie Oakley's Ace of Hearts target.

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kdotdammit February 12 2012, 07:31:44 UTC

We haven't tried shooting the cards on string. Maybe that will be part of the process of the project. We do keep shooting the cards. We're going to collage them, and then shoot them some more. Perhaps we can try stringing them up by their bullet holes.

Annie Oakley's heart target is VERY AWESOME!!!! Thanks for sharing that with me. I love it.