Book of the Floating Refrain: Tone-Crafted Poems with Blogatelles

by Martin Bidney

My collection of tone-crafted poems is a call to song. I named it "Book of the Floating Refrain" to highlight a musical feature of each poem: the line that's repeated in every stanza appears in line 1 with stanza one, in line 2 with stanza two, and so on, till it floats down to line 5 in stanza five. Refrains were typical of the word songs a late medieval "troubadour" poet would write to his lady love, and I'm a modern troubadour who hopes to awaken...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1723429511
• ISBN13: 9781723429514
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"