The "sestina" became popular in Italian literature. Bishop is widely known for her skill in the Sestina format. Vonnegut wrote a sestina for the production. She combines reality and imagination, a technique also used in her poem "Sestina". The earliest sestina of this period is Algernon Charles Swinburne's "Sestina". At the "high end" of closed forms are the sestina and villanelle. Poetic fixed forms that feature refrains include the "villanelle", the "virelay", and the "sestina". Bishop's poem "Sestina", published in 1965, depicts a real-life experience. Sestina committed to transfer to the University of Kentucky. Sestina returned in a game against Utah on December 18 and was scoreless. Sestina committed to play college basketball at Bucknell over offers from 11 other schools. Sestina was born in St. Marys, Pennsylvania and grew up in Emporium, Pennsylvania.