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An Alphabet

An Alphabet

Weinfield, Henry

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General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1953252435
ISBN13: 9781953252432
Publisher: Dos Madres Pr
Published: Sep 1 2022
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

These rhymes of Henry's, A to Z, praise and sting, whistle and lullabye, and most wonderfully, make me smile.--Billie Chernicoff

I began this sequence of alphabet poems in the summer of 2019 and completed it a year later. The sequence took shape around experiments with layered rhyme I have been making in recent years as well as around a formal rule or principle that I chose somewhat arbitrarily. This was that each of the poems would begin on the phoneme of the letter to which it was assigned, and would end either with that phoneme or with its rhyme. Some of the poems are in strict meter, but the technique of layering rhyme allowed me to vary the measure in unusual ways. In general, the early poems in the sequence are lighter and shorter than the later ones. Perhaps I simply warmed to my theme.--Henry Weinfield

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