Poem – The Philosophy of Contemporary Song

Oscar Wilde’s “De Profundis”

A Cento by James Rovira Suffering is one very long moment. Time itself does not progress | It revolves.It circles round one center of pain. There is only one season | the season of sorrow.It is always twilight in this prison cell and in this heart. In the sphere of time and thought | motionisContinue reading “Oscar Wilde’s “De Profundis””

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A New Poetic Form: The Hourglass Sestina

I’ve been working with artist, photographer, and documentary filmmaker Lee Fearnside on an illustrated collection of poems titled The Fantastic Bestiary. During the writing process for this collection, I came up with the idea of an abbreviated sestina form that would usually take the approximate shape of an hourglass if centered on the page. ThoseContinue reading “A New Poetic Form: The Hourglass Sestina”

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Jane Williams, Rolling Stone: Reconstructing British Romanticism’s Guitar God(dess)

A major prototype of the British rock icon or guitar God, I will contend, is British Romanticism’s most famous guitarist, Jane Williams (1798-1884). . .in 1822, Shelley bought her a guitar and presented it with a poem, “With a Guitar, to Jane”. . . that instrument’s connotations in early modern and Romantic-era Britain, now largelyContinue reading “Jane Williams, Rolling Stone: Reconstructing British Romanticism’s Guitar God(dess)”