VOODOO LIBRETTO AND THE SEIBLES’ VILLANELLE
In February of 2022, Tim Seibles published Voodoo Libretto: New & Selected Poems. This essential volume—close to 300 pages of veracious verse--spans the cutting edge career of a self-described “black baby boomer.” Terrance Hayes has written a wonderful review in the form of a board game. Hayes includes a charts contextualizing Seibles’ poems with cultural shifts or “the measure of time in the body of work and in the body of Tim Seibles in America, and the spirit of his poems on earth.”
https://yalereview.org/article/terrance-hayes-tim-seibles
One of the most glorious poetic gestures Seibles employs is what I call “the Seibles Villanelle.” In these poems, he elongates the villanelle to 25 lines and combines it with the blues for stunning results:
https://poets.org/poem/all-time-blues-villanelle
Congratulations, Tim!
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