krikey... i can't keep up with this list these days... a nice testament to
the diversity and interest being generated...
certainly, writing sonnets today is studying them as history... you enter
the long conversation of the artist and the form when you begin to write
them, consciously or un...
gosh, sonnets are quite possibly one of the most popular forms going these
days... they're just about everywhere you look...
i think the contradiction of an old form with modern language is a
wonderful, natural direction...
--
Bob Marcacci
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle
> From: Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:56:18 +0100
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Blinkin Sonnets!
>
> Studying sonnets as history, fine. Writing "sonnets" today would seem
> to me that you declare yourself as part of a European tradition which
> to me has run it's course and petered out ... unless you are into
> resurrecting ghosts. And the modern sonnet is a ghost, a skeleton,
> that serves only as a signifier these days.
>
> Roger
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