The second day of the workshop introduced the idea of composing research poems using the French Malaysian
pantoum poem format, which comprises a sequence of "repetitive lines [that allow] for the repetition of salient or emotionally evocative themes" (Furman, Lietz, & Langer, 2006, p.
Pantoum," where the repetition allows an inquiry to evolve into
Conventions are legible because of patterns, and in The Years Woolf creates new patterns, building a complex structure within the exhausted form, paying close attention to the repetition of particular phrases, colors, sounds, and objects through the book, making The Years into something like a novelistic
pantoum.5
Denise Duhamel's Scald deploys that casual-Friday Duhamel diction so effortlessly a reader might think heck, I could write like that , but then the dazzling leaps and forms begin--"Snake
Pantoum," "Conceptual Villanelle"-- And Duhamel's sentences don't even break a sweat, sailing on with her trademark mix of irony, grrrl power, and low-key technical virtuosity, like if Frank O'Hara, Carrie Brownstein, and Elizabeth Bishop had a baby.
In keeping with the Malay-Indonesian tradition, the author concludes with a traditional quatrain (
pantoum), self-debasingly asking for guidance (p.
Having immersed himself in historical poetic forms, Schultz now creates his own form, a variant played upon yet another historical form, the
pantoum, to make concrete the process of regenerating private history and making it public.
And "Transit," her moving
pantoum, takes us on an archetypal life journey.
A variety of forms are represented, from free verse to haiku,
pantoum, rhymed stanzas, blank verse, and syllabics.
The four movements, Modere,
Pantoum, Passacaille and Final, were performed beautifully by Buckland Reisner, Gordon and Burleson.
The section opens with a deeply moving
pantoum, "My Brother at 3 A.M.," among the very finest examples of this difficult form I know.
This is a poetry that is both generated by and organised around lists and litanies, is based on principles of bricolage, quotation and sampling (usually from popular culture), and appears to favour structures--the
pantoum or sestina, found poetry, overheard utterance--in wary avoidance of what we might call the tricky business of authority.
shows notable variants from the first edition (published 1w Durand in June 1915, several months after the work's concert premiere on 28 January), particularly in the "
Pantoum" second movement where it presents some different instrumental textures and one less measure on its last page.