Oh my gosh, it’s villanelle blood-feasts of this order that make me proud to be a spherian. Just when You think RCL could not impress you more with his parodies his, in every way, intoxicating villanelle outdoes his previous work inspiring similarly controversial discourses of it in the form in Edmund Conti’s approval and celebration of the form turning a bit sour in his next one, Roger Slater’s affectionate cynicism in not one, but three villanelles ( rivaled by Gail White’s equally cynical “The world does not need one more villanelle“) , sentimental humour and later social commentary in Douglas G. Brown’s, deep contemplation on the form’s structural nature by David Rosenthal. Great stuff!
Last edited by Eric Mwathi; 10-30-2018 at 09:01 AM.
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