Best Sestinas
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1.
"Toward Autumn," by Marilyn Hacker
47 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
2.
"The Obsession," by Wesli Court
23 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
3.
"Sestina: Bob," by Jonah Winter
18 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
4.
"Paysage Moralise,' by W. H. Auden
15 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"it is our sorrow. Shall it melt? Then water/ Would gush, flush, green these mountains and these valleys,/ And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 2 points
5.
"Sestina: Altaforte," by Ezra Pound
14 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"And let the music of the swords make them crimson!/ Hell grant soon we hear again the swords clash!/ Hell blot black for always the thought "Peace!"
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
6.
"Sestina, to the Lover's Rite," by Dave Charlon
11 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
7.
"You Goat-Herd Gods," by Sir Philip Sidney
10 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
8.
"Sestina," by Elizabeth Bishop
10 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"Time to plant tears, says the almanac./ The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove/ and the child draws another inscrutable house."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
9.
"Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape," by John Ashbery
5 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"Minute at first, the thunder/ Soon filled the apartment. It was domestic thunder,/ The color of spinach./ Popeye chuckled and scratched/ His balls: it sure was pleasant to spend a day in the country."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 1 point
10.
"The Jean Paul Sartre Sestina," by Joe Green
4 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
11.
"Liner Notes for an Imaginary Playlist," by Terrance Hayes
4 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
12.
"The 13th-Hour Session: Discussions on the Rapture Debacle: 11:59 p.m," by Andrew Neuendorf
4 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
13.
"Francis Bacon Sestina," by Lynn Kilpatrick
3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"playing dead, trying to stop time/ this way, nailing it in with a hypodermic syringe/ using what's left, a shad of red, anything, one last attempt"
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 1 point
14.
"The Complaint of Lisa," by Algernon Charles Swinburne
3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
15.
"Mantis," by Louis Zukofsky
3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
16.
"The Vision," by Lewis Turco
2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
17.
"How Duggan Knew," by Ravi Shankar
2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
18.
"To My Friend, the Christian Pop Star in Nashville," by K. Judith Mowrer
2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
19.
"SESTINA (DERAILED)." by Robert C. Mooney
2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
20.
"Home Alone," by James Cummins
1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
21.
"A Miracle for Breakfast," by Elizabeth Bishop
1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
22.
"The Remarried Again Sestina," by Shanna Compton
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
23.
"The Ghost of Foghorn Leghorn Speaks of Unrequited Love," by Paul Guest
-2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
24.
"The Seven Signs," by Leonard Kress
-2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
25.
"I Dreamed I Wrote This Sestina In My Maidenform Bra," by Denise Duhamel
-4 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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