Peter Kline

Mirrorforms (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Mirrorforms is a collection of poems in a tiny, eight-lined, intricately rhyming "mirrorform" I invented that begins and ends with the same line. Like John Berryman's "Dream Songs," Charles Wright's "Sestets," and Terrence Hayes' "American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin," this collection strives to develop the full range of expressive and sonic possibility in a single poetic form. The mirrorform's two sets of mirrored envelope rhymes make it reminiscent of the octave of a Petrarchan sonnet - and, indeed, the great English-language tradition of the sonnet sequence is another major influence-but its slender trimeter lines and prominent identical repetition give it a very distinct effect. The form is well-suited to thinking quickly through an idea, turning it over in the light; the repetition allows for both a sharply ironic twist and a haunting echo. The very short lines allow me to put intense pressure on individual words and phrases, making the form apt for all kinds of punning. In addition, the mirrorform's tendency to establish binaries makes it an especially effective form for creating complex systems of parallelism and antithesis. I've written several that are informed by Emily Dickinson's "definition" poems trying to take advantage of these logical structures. I've also written mirrorforms that incorporate quotations from other poets, using the binary structure to emphasize the implicit dialogue that is created. Mirrorforms explores the musical, rhetorical, and expressive possibilities of this form through a series of agnostic psalms, shadowy dramatic monologues, meditative studies, and elegies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Parlor Press, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 99
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781643171319
• Artikelnr.: 62154708

Autorenporträt

Peter Kline teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and in Stanford University's Master of Liberal Arts Program. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, he has also received residency fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House, James Merrill House, Marble House Project, Artsmith Orcas Island, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Foundation. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and many other journals, as well as the Best New Poets series, the Verse Daily website, and the Random House anthology of metrical poetry, Measure for Measure.