Rhyme & Refrain

by David Jalajel

The ghazal is a challenging poetic form whose metrical couplets end with a single rhyme followed by a refrain. "Rhyme & Refrain" explores this form's potential in English: including complex internal rhymes; a libretto for an oratorio that demands couplets are read simultaneously; tercet ghazals in a form invented by Robert Bly; and asemic poems that render the ghazal's form into unreadable alien scripts. Love poems to a ghoul maiden echo the ghazal's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0868087645
• ISBN13: 9780868087641
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of the Western Cape
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"