Bruce -
Thanks for the nice words. I can't do a sestina on sestinas because some guy named Dana Gioia beat me to it - My Confessional Sestina - and it's a goodie (he read it at a Powow reading a while back, and that was even goodier). It's in The Gods of Winter, but apparently not available written out anywhere on the net (I googled). Here's the first and last stanzas:
Let me confess. I'm sick of these sestinas
written by youngsters in poetry workshops
for the delectation of their fellow students
and then published in little magazines
that no one reads, not even the contributors
who at least in this omission show some taste.
Perhaps there is an afterlife where all contributors
have two workshops, a tasteful little magazine and sexy students who worshipfully memorize their every sestina.
(I did do a fairly crappy sonnet on sestinas, and I'll pm that to you.)
Michael
[This message has been edited by Michael Cantor (edited March 27, 2003).]
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