Deartra D Madkins-Boone

Love Dictates * My Poetry Chapbook - Spring 2015 Deartra D Madkins-Boone

Love Dictates is a chapbook comprised of twenty poems, fifteen which are written in one of the identified poetic forms from the book entitled The Shapes of Our Singing and five which are written in free verse. The poems were written for English 570 (Ethnic Voices: Poetry). Works included mimic a number of forms; Tripadi, Than-Bauk, Ya-Du, Chí-Yen-Shih Metre, Chueh-Chu I, Chueh-Chu II, Wu-Yen-Shih Metre, Acrostic, Blues Stanza, Burns Stanza, Echo Verse I, Echo Verse II, and Lai.