I don't tend to find trad-looking sonnets all that interesting,
although I do find such plays upon the mode as Hal's so.
But, in the line of sonnet sequences, highly modern in language, highly
trad in form, & utilizing the sequential form's history to dramatize a
lesbian love affair, Marilyn Hacker's Love, Death, and the Changing of
the Seasons comes across as a finely tuned race car.
Doug
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and this is 'life' and we owe at least this much
contemplation to our western fact: to Rise,
Decline, Fall, to futility and larks,
to the bright crustaceans of the oversky.
Phyllis Webb
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