[stylist] a RANT

[Lynda Lambert]

Shawn,
Well, it is a "rant" after all, so it is very wordy and it runs in jazzed 
lines like ice breaking on a river.  I used the sestina form because that 
gave me the space I would need to have to put in so much action on a page.

I did rewrite some of it after I sent it out on the list - I was 
uncomfortable with a couple small things there.  It takes me ages to really 
write a poem - I do the initial drafts, many of them, and then may work on 
the poem for weeks or some of them even years.  I wrote it because we were 
talking about rants over a year ago, here on the list. We were having a hot, 
wordy debate on what non-fiction means, and I was inspired to turn this 
discussion into a RANT.  It is really a RANT about words, language, and 
interpretation of core ideas - I think.  lol

I found a great RANT writer's site on the web, incidentally.

Lynda





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Kuell" <ckuell at comcast.net>
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Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] a RANT


> Linda,
>
> I enjoyed reading your rant poem. I especially like the lines:
> They waited above the fractured waterfall.  In winter, the Niagara
> is a frozen concrete lexicon, stacked to the apex with words.
> and:
> It spilled out, wet, blue ink all over the pristine white
> pages. Splashing rude jagged, painful, condescending showers.
>
> Great imagery there.
>
> chris
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lynda Lambert" <llambert at zoominternet.net>
> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 3:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] a RANT
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> I began writing the RANT poem about a year ago. I got it out and have 
> spent the entire day on it - tweaking and refining it.
> Here it is, since it is a Sestina RANT, I attached it so it retains the 
> form.
>
> Lynda Lambert
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