{"product_id":"9781938912368","title":"The Incredible Sestina Anthology","description":"More than 800 years after its invention in medieval France, the sestina survives and thrives in\u003cbr\u003eEnglish. A fixed 39-line poetic form with of six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a three-\u003cbr\u003eline stanza known as an envoi, tornada, or tercet, the sestina is the one form of poetry that poets from all camps agree can exist in a free verse world. Formalists and avant-gardes love sestinas for their ornate, maddeningly complicated rules of word repetition. For The Incredible Sestinas\u003cbr\u003eAnthology, editor Daniel Nester has gathered more than 100 writers-from John Ashbery to\u003cbr\u003eDavid Lehman to Matt Madden and Patricia Smith-to show the sestina in its many incarnations:\u003cbr\u003eprose and comic sestinas, collaborative and double sestinas, from masters of the form to brilliant one-off attempts, all to show its evolution and the possibilities of this dynamic form.","brand":"Write Bloody Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033493750000,"sku":"9781938912368","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781938912368_p0.jpg?v=1769896752","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781938912368","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}