Since I'm on a posting binge today, and since I just learned a new word, and since it's still Friday for a bit, I'm going to join the fun and tell you about the paradelle. I learned this word when I followed a link today to a Billy Collins poem and found that he had recently contributed to a collection of paradelles. (Here's a link to the book information, including a funny excerpt from Collins' introduction; if you click on the PDF you can read the whole introduction and some more of the book as well.) I looked up paradelle and discovered that it's a form invented by Collins himself as a parody of forms in general, and specifically the villanelle.
I love Billy Collins because he always seems to be having so much fun in his poems, and I love him even more now that I know about paradelles.
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2 comments:
This was GREAT. Thanks for linking to that PDF with the excerpt. SO good and funny and with some real wisdom, as well.
That's funny. I have an "ear worm" right now - the chorus in a kids' pirate picture book that comes with a CD version as sea shanty - I should see if I can use the words in a paradelle.
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