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The sestina is a form in which words repeat regularly, intricately, appearing and reappearing in new contexts with new meanings. Sam Lohmann’s Unless As Stone Is emerged from a few years of living with Dante’s sestina, “Al poco giorno e al gran cerchio d’ombra”. He allowed the text to appear in its own new—if irregularly scheduled—contexts. New translations, new scenery, new meanings; new phrases entered the poem (from García Lorca, from Sappho, from strangers and from loved ones) and found their own patterns. What resulted is a serial poem in seven movements, incorporating several strategies of reincorporation. “Quandunque i colli fanno più nera ombra“—”All our oddity operates / on changing verity”.
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- Dante
- Literature & literary studies
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- Poetry by individual poets
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DOI: 10.21983/P3.0058.1.00Editions