PoemTalk is available on iTunes (simply type "PoemTalk" in your iTunes store searchbox).
PoemTalkers
Jessica Lowenthal,
Lee Ann Brown, and
Sueyeun Juliette Lee gathered with
Al Filreis to talk about five poems from
Laynie Browne’s
Daily Sonnets, which was
published by Counterpath Press
of Denver in 2007. We chose two of Browne’s “fractional sonnets,” two
of the sonnets in which the talk of her children is picked up partly or
wholly as lines of the poem, and one of her “personal amulet” sonnets.
These are, to be specific: “Six-Fourteenths Donne Sonnet” [
MP3], “Two-Fourteenths Sonnet” [
MP3], “In Chinese astrology you are a snake” [
MP3], “I’m a bunny in a bunny suit” [
MP3], and “Protector #2: Your Personal Amulet” [
MP3]. The sonnet after Donne is a constrained rewriting of a “holy” sonnet: “
I am a little world made cunningly.”
