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This page last updated: 21st December 2007. 		Amaze Vol.4 ##1-4 2006 Annual

If you enjoy cinquains then this is for you because it is one of the few journals that focuses on this type of poetry. This book, released in 2006, is the first annual from Amaze which started as a webzine. There are a variety of styles, and the pages include butterfly cinquains, and also crowns (five verses):

	How you
	loaded lilacs
	onto the wheelbarrow
	with some, stuck in the spokes, oozing
	softness.
The above is from the crown IN THE GARDEN OF LILACS by Hortensia Anderson.

The cinquains are arranged according to the issues of Amaze produced during 2006. Notes on contributors are given at the back, and there are also a number of articles and reviews. In the THE PROSODY OF CINQUAINS, Denis M Garrison suggests that:

Twenty-first century poets have largely settled upon a purely syllabic form for the cinquain: 2-4-6-8-2 syllables on five lines; twenty-two syllables without respect to a particular metrical design.
and WEATHER REPORT by Rich Magahiz demonstrates the emphasis on strict syllable counting:
	Colder
	than the day I 
	tossed out your love letters,
	the barometer rising and
	skies clear.
With a wide range of subject matter, there is scope for all cinquain lovers to find something of interest, from a bell to a horse:
	Wild eyed,
	he rides his mount
	deep into the dark night —
	forever chasing another
	winner . . .
The cinquain above is by Michael L Evans, called A BOY AND HIS ROCKING HORSE.

This annual is suitable for those new to the form as well as those who know the form well; and the book is a tribute to Deborah P Kolodji and Lisa Janice Cohen who obviously love the form and have produced this annual in order to promote it.

reviewer: Doreen King.