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Examples
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Here is one of my favorites, his disappearing Sestina, which is also, elegantly, a history lesson of the sestina itself:
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Nervous investors who stash all their savings in certificates of deposit and money market funds "are committing financial suicide," says John Sestina, a financial planner in Columbus, Ohio.
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It is also a peculiarly potent poem – in a memory-aiding form known as a Sestina.
To an icy Valentine 2009
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It is also a peculiarly potent poem – in a memory-aiding form known as a Sestina.
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But the Sestina isa perfect form for frustration, imprisonment, obsessive complaint.
To an icy Valentine 2009
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But the Sestina isa perfect form for frustration, imprisonment, obsessive complaint.
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Probably my best-known poem is a sestina: "Endless Sestina" in Neil Gaiman's SANDMAN: THE BOOK OF DREAMS anthology, where the form ties in quite directly with the mythology of the series (in an admittedly "clever" way).
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2006
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Wrong, says John Sestina, a financial planner in Columbus, Ohio.
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Sestina says expenses start to decline after the initial retirement euphoria.
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When she was younger, Sestina says, she should have been fully invested for growth.
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