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… A Review of Emily Grosholz’s The Stars of the Earth | Literary Matters. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

 … for a poet so strongly linked to the New Formalism, Grosholz is remarkably sparing with any received form other than blank verse; I can find in the book two villanelles and one poem—the title poem of The Abacus of Years—that hints at a slant terza rima in spots. The fourteen-line poems labeled sonnets have no clear pattern of end rhyme, and only the slightest of turns. Even a poem in ballad stanza, “A Bouquet for Buffalo,” is unrhymed. Rhyme appears in some poems, but randomly, as a surprise effect.