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Martin Bidney - The Be-loving Imaginer - Episode 45 Samples from Three Books
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The Be-loving Imaginer Episode 45
Samples from Three Books
It’s a joy to offer samples from three of my recent books of poems.
From More Four! Four Beats Four Lines, Four Stanzas: 330 Four Wordsongs I offer 4 samples: (18) Jeer, (26) Nose, (103) Psalming, and (201) Sheheḥyananu (You Who Have Kept Us Alive). They contribute to the theme of being a Jewish American.
From Asclepiadic Explorer: 99 Poems and 4 Songs I offer two kinds of asclepiads from ancient verse stanza forms. (1) Melody 1 exhibits the “Third Asclepiadic” form, as it was called, and (2) Melody 2 exhibits the “Fourth Asclepiadic.” They are so intensely musical, let’s not allow this form go so extinct!
From No Lovelier Melody Ever Was Known: A Month of 96 Poems in Amphibrachic Tetrameter Catalectic. An amphibrach is la-LA-la. A tetrameter means we’ll four of them in each line. A catalexis means a line shortened by a syllable, so instead of la-LA-la, la-LA-la, la-LA-la la-LA-la we’ll have a-ONE-and, a-TWO-and, a-THREE-and, a-FOUR. I’ll offer the first 4 poems in the book to get you going and whet your appetite.
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