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• n  a narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts

• Yet Merrill's own repertoire includes a Horatian ode, several forms of sonnets, a slightly modified villanelle and a stretch of Dantesque terza rima.
• His terza rima stanzas have no rhyme, but instead a subtle assonance.
• There is nothing "aloof" about Sophocles' Oedipus, and Dante, despite his terza rima, was in there dealing with the nitty-gritty of his day.

News & Articles

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• Johnson is delegate to state P.E.O. convention
    Rima Johnson, delegate from P.E.O. Chapter EI, Belle Plaine, attended the 121st annual Convention of Iowa State Chapter P.E.O. Sisterhood held June 1-2 in Des Moines. Cathy Wehrman, Luzerne, attended as a visitor. With the theme “Love Binds Together the Patterns of Our Lives,” Barbara Moore, Chapter DT, Mount Vernon, presided over 700 delegates [...]
  June 11, 2013 - Star Press Union

Quotes

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• Hanan al-Shaykh in Newsweek
  My mother was born in 1925,says al-Shaykh. "Now we are in 2010. How dare people talk about Rima Fakih as if it is amazing she comes from near Nabatiyeh [South Lebanon]; as if, because her family shares some names with people in Hizbullah...
• Karen Joy Fowler in Sacramento Bee
  It's about a young woman named Rima who, during a difficult period of her life, goes to Santa Cruz to stay with her godmother, whom she hardly knows,Fowler said.