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The rhyme begins at both ends and moves toward the center and back out toward the beginning and end. The poem written in syllabic prosody, a pattern of the number of syllables, deploys lines of the same number of syllables, with one exception. That one exception does not break the rule. The rhymes in
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containing work by Weatherly and essays by Sam Amico, John Ashbery, Kenneth Bluford, Victor Bockris, Akua Lezli Hope, David Grundy, Burt Kimmelman, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Chris Martin, Eugene Richie, Evelyn Hoard Roberts Janet Rosen and Rosanne
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calls him "that rarest of birds, a mystic with a sense of humor . . . a red-blooded American Zen master." Among Weatherly's innovations was a counted-syllable, patterned-sonic form that he called the double glory, and which he explains in
202:, a circle of African-American poets and writers founded in the early 1960s, he did not include himself among them, having arrived late on the scene. He attended the inaugural poetry workshops at the Poetry Project, taught by poet 318:, but according to his friend M. G. Stephens, "He preferred to stay out of the limelight." "I want my work famous, not my face," Weatherly quipped. He often called himself "the grandson of 673: 149: 667: 437: 567: 89: 61: 734: 42: 264:, discuss topics ranging from prosody and politics; the last entry of saint satin stain is poem Weatherly wrote as a memorial for 237:(rare and first edition bookstore) in New York City for decades, as well as at The Lion's Head, a local pub in Sheridan Square. 759: 68: 249: 75: 627: 108: 57: 541: 46: 739: 715: 382:
Weatherly was buried in a traditional Jewish ceremony in Huntsville, Alabama, upon his death in July 2014.
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the main pattern identical rhyme, true rhyme and assonance plays against two consonant rhymes heart/hurts.
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before moving to New York in the winter of 1966–1967. Although sometimes classed among New York's
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community. His grandmother, Mary E. Hunter, was the first black school principal in the county.
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His work career also includes serving as a teacher of creative writing at St. Mark's Church in
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and Lucy B. Golson Weatherly, were educators and civic leaders in the
283:. Weatherly also edited and co-edited several anthologies, including 268:, who had died just days before Weatherly himself. He also wrote for 24: 164: 226:, Weatherly began describing himself as a poet; his first book, 516: 438:"Thomas Elias Weatherly Jr.'s Obituary on The Huntsville Times" 408:
New York: Telegraph Books, 1971 (facsimile at Eclipse Archive).
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at St. Mark’s Church in New York City. Weatherly’s parents,
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