<p><img decoding="async" src="https://thechrisvossshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/615lb8N61L._SL1360_-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-49779" srcset="https://thechrisvossshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/615lb8N61L._SL1360_-200x300.jpg 200w, https://thechrisvossshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/615lb8N61L._SL1360_-600x900.jpg 600w, https://thechrisvossshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/615lb8N61L._SL1360_-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://thechrisvossshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/615lb8N61L._SL1360_.jpg 907w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" /></p> <p> <strong>Bliss in Triple Rhythm&#8211;A Toolbox for Poets: Nine Ways to Shape A Word Song: Shown in 300 Original Poems by Martin Bidney</strong></p> <p> <strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bliss-Triple-Rhythm-Toolbox-Poets/dp/1987402561" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Bliss-Triple-Rhythm-Toolbox-Poets/dp/1987402561</a></strong></p> <p> <strong><a href="https://www.martinbidney.org/" target="_blank">Mmartinbidney.org</a></strong></p> <p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fz-60vroaPU?si=7_GFwKapwH3ef_7E" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>This book of word songs in unexpected melodic patterns will surprise you by its equally unusual liveliness. I&#8217;m so eager to begin singing for you that, as you noticed, I&#8217;ve already written a prefatory poem in one of the varied kinds of triple rhythm units I&#8217;ll be illustrating (la LA la; weak STRONG weak; one TWO three; x/x). The strangest thing I&#8217;ll be doing in my collection is to bring about a resurrection of ancient stanza patterns embodying the musical structures I love. The uncustomary triple-rhythm stanza forms richly displayed will acquire a real if unlikely novelty by presenting tools so extremely old.</p> <p>About the author<br /> Martin Bidney, Professor Emeritus at Binghamton University (NY), writes poetry books that are dialogues. In &#8220;Shakespair&#8221; he converses in Shakespearean sonnets with the 154 that the bisexual Bard himself wrote in the 1590s about his boyfriend and girlfriend. In &#8220;A Unifying Light&#8221; Martin converses with Qur&#8217;anic passages on the topic of Jews and Christians in the Qur&#8217;an and the Islamic virtues they embody. &#8220;East-West Poetry&#8221; shows Martin replying, in poems, to passages from both the Qur&#8217;an and Rumi. &#8220;Poems of Wine and Tavern Romance&#8221; offers 103 dialogues between Martin and Hafiz, the 14th century Persian pub poet he translates, a Muslim Sufi who was bisexual, like Shakespeare, and whom Germany&#8217;s greatest poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, called his &#8220;twin&#8221; brother! (Martin translates Hafiz from the same version Goethe used.) In fact, Martin has also translated Goethe&#8217;s own &#8220;West-East Divan&#8221; (divan means &#8220;collection&#8221;) and wrote conversational reply poems to all of Goethe&#8217;s 240 lyrics. Martin&#8217;s dialogue book with the greatest Polish poet, Adam Mickiewicz, contains, on facing pages, the sonnets he wrote in response to the &#8220;Crimean Sonnets&#8221; he translated from Polish. In &#8220;Like a Fine Rug of Erivan&#8221; he translates 39 Pushkin poems from Russian and recites them on a CD. His wide-ranging fascination with revelatory writing stems from &#8220;Patterns of Epiphany,&#8221; where Martin pioneered a method of analysis he has since applied to over 20 authors.</p>