"It seems that all they finally want to keep is the fourteen lines, &,
perhaps, an inner turn..."
Douglas, thanks for the info. I'd kind of gathered that postmodernism
had sunk its rubbery teeth into sonnets like it has into most
everything else, thanks for affirming my hunch.
it seems a little stupid to me to call a poem in 14 lines & a volta a
sonnet. maybe I'm close-minded about this particular topic somehow,
but I see no point in it. just call it freeverse, if you have to give
it a category, is what I say.
KS
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