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Villanelles (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS) Hardcover – 30 Mar. 2012
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- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherEveryman
- Publication date30 Mar. 2012
- Dimensions11.5 x 2.1 x 16.5 cm
- ISBN-101841597929
- ISBN-13978-1841597928
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- Publisher : Everyman (30 Mar. 2012)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1841597929
- ISBN-13 : 978-1841597928
- Dimensions : 11.5 x 2.1 x 16.5 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 752,751 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 7,653 in Drama (Books)
- 20,179 in Poetry & Drama Criticism
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About the authors
Annie Finch is a poet, writer, translator, speaker, teacher, performer, and witch. She is the author of seven books of poetry including Spells: New and Selected Poems, Among the Goddesses, Eve, and Calendars. She has also published books sharing knowledge and ideas about poetry and poetic craft such as A Poet's Craft, The Body of Poetry, The Ghost of Meter, Villanelles, and Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters. Finch writes often about magic, feminism, and spirituality and is the editor of the first major anthology of abortion literature, Choice Words: Writers on Abortion. She has collaborated frequently with music, theater, and dance and is the founder of Poetry Witch Ritual Theater. Her poetry has been recognized with the Sarasvati Award and the Robert Fitzgerald Award and shortlisted for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, National Poetry Series, and Foreword Book Award, and her poems have been featured in such publications as The New York Times, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, and The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. She teaches widely, and has lectured and performed on five continents.
Robert Schechter writes poetry for children, as well as adult light verse and poetry translations. His first book of children's poems, "THE RED EAR BLOWS ITS NOSE: Poems for Children and Others" (April 2023) has received extraordinary advance praise, including starred reviews in Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, and Booklist. His poems and translations have appeared in Highlights for Children, High Five, Cricket, Ladybug, Spider, The Caterpillar, The Washington Post, The Spectator, Salon, The Evansville Review, and many other journals, as well as in many anthologies. Robert was the winner of the XJ Kennedy Parody Award for 2016 and the 2019 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. You can read more about him at http://bobschechter.com .
Corrina Bain, author of Debidement (Great Weather for Media) is a gender non-conforming writer, performer, and teaching artist. He is a former member and coach of multiple national-level poetry slam teams. His work has appeared in anthologies and journals such as Muzzle Magazine, PANK, A Face to Meet the Faces, and the Everyman’s Library book Villanelles. His work engages the nuances of the body as a source of identity, pleasure, betrayal, and shame. While deeply rooted in the personal and specific, his vision extends to encompass history, mythology, and politics. No injustice, hypocrisy, or human weakness escapes this poet’s gaze, especially his own. Searching beyond violence, Corrina suggests that there is power in trusting the body’s wisdom, in witnessing suffering, and in speaking what you do not dare to say. Currently, he lives in Brooklyn where he practices roundhouse kicks, twerking, and emergency psychiatric counseling.
Marie-Elizabeth Mali is a Relationship Artist who helps entrepreneurs and creatives deepen the love and connection in their intimate relationship without sacrificing their professional success. Drawing on her Master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine and thirty years of personal development, her Relationship Artistry work supports passionate and work-driven people in expanding joy and fulfillment beyond their desks.
Marie-Elizabeth is the author of one book of poetry, Steady My, Gaze (Tebot Bach, 2011) and co-editor with Annie Finch of the anthology, Villanelles (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, 2012). She has an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and treasures the way that writing allows the depth of who we are to find its way to the surface.
Marie-Elizabeth's also an avid scuba diver and underwater photographer who has a thing for sharks!
Learn more about her work at https://memali.com
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 March 2014I can't imagine that you're thinking about buying this book if you don't know what a villanelle is so I won't offer an explanation. So given that you're probably here because you're interested in villanelles and want to read more of them, I just want to tell you that you're in the right place. This is an excellent selection, there's something here for everyone.
The book is split into four sections. The first "The Villanelle Tradition" contains 21 classics: Thomas Hardy, Edith Thomas on up to W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath. The next, and by far the largest section is "Contemporary Villanelles" contains around 110-120 modern villanelles (I made it 116 but I may be out by one or two), I won't even attempt to list authors. Next come "Villanelles about Villanelles" 14 self-referential poems, and finally 30 "Variations on the Villanelle" where you get to see how the form can be played around with, including non-rhyming villanelles, villanelles which different numbers of stanzas and such wonderful inventions as a reverse villanelle, a haiku villanelle and a terzanelle (villanelle crossed with terza rima).
My only real criticism is the size of the book. This is a pocket-book. Not really small enough to fit in most pockets but smaller than your average book. Most of the poems fit just fine, but when poems have slightly longer lines, some or all of the lines have to be broken where the poet didn't intend them to be broken. I personally would have preferred a larger book instead.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 September 2014I am thoroughly enjoying this little book. By that I mean I keep going to back to the poems, even though I have read them before. As in any book there are a few that just don't "do it" for me, but not because they're bad poems, they're just not to my taste. I'm at university and learning about forms at the moment, and this has been invaluable.
My favourite is The Topiarist Has Been Called Away.
It never gets boring, even though they are all the same format, and you can dip in and out easily.
A lovely book for anyone who likes poetry of any sort.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 January 2015A lovely Christmas gift, greatly enjoyed by the owner. I just wish I hadn't given it to him late in the evening as he was up all night reading it,
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 January 2014My wife (who is a poet) loves it. However, she is a bit of an academic so don'nt blame me.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 September 2017Quick, great, fine
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 November 2014Thank you
Top reviews from other countries
- CatherineReviewed in Canada on 12 October 2017
4.0 out of 5 stars Love em. Love em
Love em . Love em. Now that I have read more of the book....oh !!!! So many - they cheat ! They are not true villanelles !! And it really really annoys me. Hurts me, to read them. I write them . I am a writer and if the ' writers ' just thought a little longer they may find the correct rhyming word. Why would so , so many be published. It's awful. I'll fill the book for them !
- SonneteerReviewed in the United States on 15 June 2012
5.0 out of 5 stars Great anthology
Villanelles are sly and pleasing poems that employ a nice circularity, with two lines repeated cleverly throughout the poem. Famous villanelles include Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle" and Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art." This collection dishes up many more; some are classic but most are written by living poets. The villanelles range from the serious to light and are, indeed, astonishing in their variety. Though one could quibble about a couple of the choices, most of the poems are just great. High moments come from Marilyn Hacker, Rhina P. Espaillat, Kate Bernadette Benedict, Taylor Graham, Marilyn Nelson, C. K. Williams, and many more.
- JHammonsReviewed in the United States on 27 September 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful collection
A very useful book for exploring the form of the villanelle.
- David A. SermersheimReviewed in the United States on 11 October 2013
5.0 out of 5 stars "Villanelles", a reaction.
Villanelles fascinate me. Their form is almost magical, if not bewitching in its one-line refrains, inserted when you least expect them.
This volume is excellent, not as a collection of examples, but as a compilation of lyrical invention that keeps opening up each time you read any one of the poems. I'm very glad Everyman published these poems, for one doesn't find the form unless he happens to stumble upon it in random collections.
- LitnivorousReviewed in the United States on 22 August 2015
5.0 out of 5 stars More here than you think!
Knowing the book is small in size like the other books in the Pocket Poets series, you'd think there are fewer poems inside, but there are a surprising number of poems from a very diverse company of poets. I used this book to teach a course on Villanelles and found it a fantastic and comprehensive resource. Especially valuable is the final section on Villanelle Variations.