A Book of Minutes
Poetry by Cathy Smith Bowers
96 pages
$13.00
Published in 2004
ISBN: 0-916078-58-2
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| A Book of Minutes is composed entirely of poems in a form called the minute, originally formulated by Verna Lee Hinegardner, former poet laureate of Arkansas. Poems in this form consist of sixty syllables in rhyming couplets with a syllabic line count of 8,4,4,4— 8,4,4,4— 8,4,4,4. A Book of Minutes is structured like a Book of Hours, the medieval prayer book that was its age’s own version of today’s literary best-seller. The Book of Hours was arranged in sections corresponding to with the eight canonical hours of the day, beginning with Matins, moving all the way through to Vespers, and ending with Compline. A Book of Minutes retains the same eight sections, and is illustrated to suggest illumination. | ||
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