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Elizabeth Bishop — Sestina

Poetry Unbound

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Sestina by Elizabeth Bishop

Sestina by elizabeth bishop, september, rain falls on the house in the failing light. If i thought about a particular period of my life, what six words would do for me for holding it together? Some of them happy, some of them sad and some of them complex. And that's the real intelligence of a form of poetry like this.

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