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michael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

And Plath. And Swift, though his doggerel is meant to be comical. But cf.: rhinopoetry.org/reviews/coup...

REVIEWS — RHINO — Couplets: A Love Story, by Maggie Millner - Reviewed by Anthony Madrid

Now, I don’t want to talk content; I want to talk form. When the words are set up as prose like this, a number of edits become obvious. The whole first sentence is ungainly—and ungainly, too, is the c...

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Ben Friedlander (he/him/his) @mongibeddu.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I like his distinction between rhyme and the rhyme effect, though I think I’d credit the latter’s “bounce” (as he nicely puts it) to positioning in general—“rhythmic set-up” for sure, but also syntactic and spatial positioning.

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Ben Friedlander (he/him/his) @mongibeddu.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I also think rhyme that doesn’t have that bounce can still contribute to a poem’s overall effect, its sense of musicality or eloquence, as so often happens with assonance and consonance. Which is not the case, obviously, in his prose version of Millner.

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