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Rupture, Verge, and Precipice

Precipice, Verge, and Hurt Not

by Carole Maso

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this was a strange one (prose poetry maybe?) with a strong anti-literary establishment (esp white male) element. kind of zoned out for part of it. some of the language used is beautiful though

Maso, C. (1996). Rupture, Verge, and Precipice. In ? The Future of Fiction. Dalkey Archive Press, pp. 54-75

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[...] Whosoever has let in one genuine sentence, one paragraph, has felt that seduction like a golden thread being pulled slowly through one. . . .

—p.71 by Carole Maso 6 years, 7 months ago

[...] Whosoever has let in one genuine sentence, one paragraph, has felt that seduction like a golden thread being pulled slowly through one. . . .

—p.71 by Carole Maso 6 years, 7 months ago

(noun) a chiefly French verse form running on two rhymes and consisting typically of five tercets and a quatrain in which the first and third lines of the opening tercet recur alternately at the end of the other tercets and together as the last two lines of the quatrain / (noun) a 16th century Italian part-song in an intentionally unsophisticated style / (noun) an instrumental piece in the style of a rustic dance

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Whosoever has allowed the villanelle to enter them or the sonnet.

—p.71 by Carole Maso
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6 years, 7 months ago

Whosoever has allowed the villanelle to enter them or the sonnet.

—p.71 by Carole Maso
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6 years, 7 months ago
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The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again. If only for a moment.

—p.72 by Carole Maso 6 years, 7 months ago

The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again. If only for a moment.

—p.72 by Carole Maso 6 years, 7 months ago