Notes
1. John Ashbery, "Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape," Academy of American Poets, 1970, accessed on August 15, 2014, http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/farm-implements-and-rutabagas-landscape.
2. "Discover PPS: Pittsburgh Allderdice High School," Pittsburgh Public Schools, last modified October 2013, http://discoverpps.org/school.php?id=301.
3. Ibid.
4. Retrieved from internal data.
5. "The Gifted and Talented Identification Process," Pittsburgh Public Schools, accessed on July 15, 2014, http://www.pps.k12.pa.us/Page/827.
6. Randy K. Schwartz and Rheta N. Rubenstein, "Another Verse, Changed from the First," Math Horizons 9, no. 2 (2001): 28.
7. Stephen Burt, "Sestina! or, The Fate of the Idea of Form," Modern Philology 105, no. 2 (2007): 219.
8. James Cummins, "Calliope Music: Notes on the Sestina," The Antioch Review 55, no. 2 (1997): 151.
9. Ibid, 151-152.
10. John Hollander, Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, 42.
11. Ibid, 42.
12. Sir Philip Sydney, "Ye Goatherd Gods," Western Michigan University, accessed on August 15, 2014, http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/Sidney.sestina.html.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Mary Kinzie, A Poet's Guide to Poetry, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999, 459.
16. Encyclopedia Brittanica.
17. Burt, 219.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid., 220.
20. Ibid., 221.
21. Ibid, 221.
22. Ibid, 222.
23. Alexandra Korcz, "Behind the Sestina: Sharon Mesmer on 'Super Rooster Killer Assault Kit," Incredible Sestinas (blog), December 11, 2013, http://incrediblesestinas.com/2013/12/11/behind-the-sestina-sharon-mesmer-on-super-rooster-killer-assault-kit/.
24. Cummins, 150.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid., 154.
27. Ibid., 152.
28. Ibid., 155.
29. Elizabeth Bishop, "Sestina,"
30. Cummins, 150.
31. Bishop.
32. Cummins, 150.
33. A.E. Stallings, "Like,"
34. John Ashbery, "Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape."
35. Ibid.
36. Catharine E. Wall, "Bilingualism and Identity in Julia Alvarez's Poem 'Bilingual Sestina,'" MELUS 28, no. 4 (2003): 131.
37. Ibid., 132.
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