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Elongated and paved with bricks, the path is a closed form, a kind of physical villanelle that thwarts the experience of continuity or the feeling of finitude.
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Hamilton Cain, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
Susan Kinsolving’s villanelle obsessively circles the same two rhymes, keeping pace with the anxiety of a mind trying to cope.
—Clare Bucknell, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2020
Her own verse often drew on classical forms such as the villanelle, sestina, tritina and sonnet, and sometimes incorporated references to ancient mythology and medieval legend.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
But then, rarely does an individual strip contain a complete and proper villanelle about food.
—Wired Blogs, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2006
Hamilton Cain, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
Susan Kinsolving’s villanelle obsessively circles the same two rhymes, keeping pace with the anxiety of a mind trying to cope.
—Clare Bucknell, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2020
Her own verse often drew on classical forms such as the villanelle, sestina, tritina and sonnet, and sometimes incorporated references to ancient mythology and medieval legend.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
But then, rarely does an individual strip contain a complete and proper villanelle about food.
—Wired Blogs, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2006
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“Villanelle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/villanelle. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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