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Neruda’s Sixteen Finches single work   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Neruda’s Sixteen Finches
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Notes

  • Author's note:

    About the poem:

    ‘Neruda’s Sixteen Finches’ is a broken sestina written following research into family history. It positions an ancestor at the time of Neruda and compares the two, both women who played violin at a time when women faced many difficulties with acceptance and recognition.

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