Poetic Obituaries: Poet, playwright, and short-story writer Turner Cassity

earned fame for his prolific publication of formal poetry. His work shares sentiments with the New Formalist movement that matured in the 1980s, exhibiting such characteristics as an avoidance of the autobiographical, a preference for meter and rhyme over free verse, stylized language, and the unfolding of a poem through narrative. Cassity's verse is known for its wit, humor, stringent satire, and iconoclastic views, as well as for its musicality

from The New Georgia Encyclopedia: Turner Cassity (1929-2009)

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