sestinas

Author(s)

Dan Waber

First Published

2010

Original Publisher

Chapbook Publishing

Description

"This is a series of 9.103 x 10131 sestinas I wrote over the course of many years. In my real world I was moving in a series of progressively (but everso-slightly) smaller orbits that would eventually bring me here to the best part of my life. The ride itself was like being on a carousel. The regular reappearance of the brass ring was what kept me going. Being always up or down or pulled in or out just as the ring went by fueled a sense of free-fall. A sestina feels to me like a fall through a system of cycles. I began to write, and ended up with more sestinas than there are particles in the known universe. What continues to interest me in these poems is how every one can be both different and the same, both the same and different. I hope they say something about language itself, something about the deep structures of grammar, and the relationship between what we can put into words and what we can take from them." -- from the website