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stanzas

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The books are episodic, composed of scenes that function like poetic stanzas that are linked as much by ideas and motifs as by narrative progression.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Still, it’s another of the poem’s stanzas, unspoken here, that points most forcefully to “Fellow Travelers’” project.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023

I gave my idea a form, a structure in which to be contained stanzas, line breaks that were cues.

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2023

Like many of her peers, she favors objects that bear the marks of use, as if, having inherited a sorely used world, she’s making stanzas from its leftovers.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2023

They inquired after her studies and she was asked to recite a few stanzas from “The Daffodils.”

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri