Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina

By Shannon Maguire

Myrmurs is an innovative variant of the sestina form (a medieval mechanism of desire that spirals around six end words). Connecting medieval textuality to contemporary politics and poetics, this poem explores living systems: cities and languages as self-organizing entities; ants; interspecies entanglements; strange attachments; neocolonialism and how to break free of it. Following on her critically acclaimed debut collection fur(l) parachute (published by BookThug in 2013), this is the second volume in Shannon Maguire's planned medievalist trilogy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771661607
• ISBN13: 9781771661607
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Book*hug Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 7.9"