Sestinas

            "Just some amaretto while I worked on my sestinas," Byrd says, obviously winded from an elementary pattern he should be able to handle easily if he had followed the squad's mandatory offseason conditioning program. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How do the lives of working mothers resemble sestinas? ❋ Unknown (2007)

I will also observe for the record that, although the recently shortened title for Book Four is probably much better for marketing purposes, it makes life decidedly more interesting for would-be writers of sestinas. ❋ Seanan_mcguire (2009)

And by the way, here in England there are poets old and young still writing sestinas and villanelles... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Maybe part of the attraction of constrained forms (tweets, sonnets, sestinas, all that Oulipo hath wrought) is that there's a kind of uncertainty principle in operation: the more constrained the language, the more the words *must mean* (or, as readers, we must make them mean). ❋ Lemon Hound (2009)

Cast in sestinas, sonnets, blank verse and triolets. ❋ Eric Dickens (2009)

Villanelles and sestinas, though, are entirely synthetic creations. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We line up our stanzas, tweak rhythm and flow, struggle through first sestinas. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I think sonnets actually belong to a different category of form, though, than sestinas or villanelles. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Brice is an artist and writer who paints sestinas. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I had such wonderful ideas to make you all write sestinas or villanelles. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In college, I tried to write a total of 3 sestinas, and they were all pretty awful. ❋ Fusenumber8 (2007)

The estimable Edmund White says: Marilyn Hacker joins a miraculous facility with poetic forms sonnets, ballades, sestinas to a shockingly intense sensuality. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I was submitting sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, and the like. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The format is excruciatingly constrained, somewhere in the neighborhoof of p0rn, sestinas, or crossword puzzles. ❋ Unknown (2007)

MS. DOVE: Elizabeth Bishop wrote one of the most amazing sestinas ❋ ITY National Archives (1998)

Gosse, Swinburne, and Kipling have written sestinas; Swinburne one with the additional embellishment of rime. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)

Even the mere literary experiments, the rondeaus, the sestinas -- the literary jokes in which every poet indulges -- are neatly turned. ❋ Rolfe Arnold Scott-James (N/A)