as in poems
a humorous rhyming composition of five lines
She recited an old limerick which elicited guffaws from the crowd
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Mayer resurfaces throughout Lasky’s Memory—regarding her photographs or poems or a pithy quotation—while Lasky considers the memories of her own life.—
Diana Arterian,
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Her father loved reading poems aloud to the family.—
Amy Weiss-Meyer,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
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Seamus Heaney’s sonnets about Northern Ireland in the 1970s and Annie Ernaux’s memoirs of France in the 1960s propose indirect but approachable ways of engaging with personal and national history.—
Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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The captive—and Cervantes—found something moving in those sonnets, something that gave them the will to hope.—
Ed Simon
September 22,
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22 Sep. 2025
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Tutivillus, who totted up all the mistakes clergymen made when singing hymns or reciting psalms.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2025
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Revered by all three Abrahamic religions, the psalms were often recited, read, and sung in routine worship.—
Brendan Ruberry,
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23 Sep. 2025
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In Sor Juana’s verses, the vicereine is a cruel creature who never reciprocates.—
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4 Nov. 2025
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Rethinking Charleston Receipts Like other books about Lowcountry life in that era, the pages are peppered with Gullah Geechee verses, the linguistic heritage of the West African descendants who live in the region, along with English interpretations.—
Adrian Miller,
Southern Living,
28 Oct. 2025
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