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Month: January 2022

Villanelle: Fixing freedom in five tercets and a quatrain

Posted on January 31, 2022 by insister_xz0h57

In love with words and poetry; it’s a matter of life and death    A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day. Emily Dickinson Photo: “Emily Dickinson’s white dress“ Ursula K. Le Guin insister-ed that “love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it…

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The monster within revisited: A villanelle

Posted on January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 by insister_xz0h57

At 2:18am   At 2:18am the world and her heart are ever so dark, thoughts circling like a hungry pack of wolves,  “Fancy a dance with death?” she hears the night remark.    The wind grazes her with its teeth and taunts her, while her sister in the room next door snores and slumbers with…

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Shelving stories, storying shelves

Posted on January 13, 2022January 19, 2022 by insister_xz0h57

Shelves hold things … Ursula K. Le Guin maintained that words and books “hold things” and bear meaning – just like a medicine bundle, together “holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us.” Wandering through the lowly lit stacks of secondhand books in Archives Fine Books in Charlotte Street on…

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She decided to resist and insistered on structure

Posted on January 5, 2022February 26, 2022 by insister_xz0h57

When women speak truly they speak subversively — they can’t help it: if you’re underneath, if you’re kept down, you break out, you subvert. Ursula K. Le Guin, Bryn Mawr College commencement speech, 1986, published in the essay collection Dancing At The Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places, 1989. Ursula K. Le…

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