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he made a whole career of it in a way.

it's not really a criticism, i can see why he likes them, but look at the first line. what are the other undisclosed messages? who's withholding them? it's only there to add a hint of textual mystery really

I've got a feeling it was originally a troubadour form but i don't think anyone here speaks Provençal

this is the canonical DOUBLE sestina Ye Goatherd Gods decent one by John Ashbery but it's not in a classical metre larded with Ashbery's usual irrelevancies Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape

This is an example of a sestina, considered by some to be the most difficult poetic form. See how the end words cycle in a particular pattern in each stanza and are recapitulated in the closing three lines? That helps with the disorientating, static feel, and gives rise to effects like something...

Dissensus, as far as I am aware, emerged from a spirit of celebration, not of some partisan taste, but (despite the umbrella) something we all share, and yet none of us is any closer to a definition. What is it? Birdsong, the rush of air through foliage, the babble of a stream? Crackling of...

HARD RESET. BEGIN AFTER BASICS. We have progressed past the logistic stage to a point where arcs inscribe their object. New post-everything ideas about the feeling in my fingertips. There is nothing more conducive to ballistic reflections than curving concrete, just round from the long, wide...

Any individual will attest: the eye cast over a closing confession. The spooling confetti clause, with a false front and plumb-line, ponders. The world takes another turn, and here comes the hangman, no stone or sun. It's just a set, up, a person from St. Kitt's: easy to slam shut and carry on...

well folks after twenty five (!) years of posting it's time for me to log out for the last time! I've just moved a girl in to my flat ( for better or wise!!) and as we all know that disqualifies me from the forum...! before i go i just want to say thanks to the lads! (and dudes)( and everyone...

this is the single constant theme of dissensus from k-punk through to now. it's the only topic ever discussed on this forum

i wonder if mixed biscuit is up for a round off penertrating questions.

going to have another one in a minute cos fags are the best and vaping is rubbish

a comforting smell that will soon result in a fine and/or imprisonment