I expect they did, as the teacher discussed the sonnets in the context of Chandler, Hammett and 40s & 50s film noir. And when several students emailed me directly about the poems, I referred them to those same sources.
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From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:51:30 -0600
Hope that class had to read at least one Chandler or Hammett, or even
better, a 50s Gold Medal paperback.....
Doug
On 1-Jun-09, at 3:59 PM, Bradley Omanson wrote:
> Just learned that a high school English class in Richmond Virginia
> spent a whole class period discussing my unfinished & unpublished
> 'Hard-boiled Sonnets'.
>
> (he pulls a mostly empty bottle of Old Tom Turkey from beneath a
> pile of unpaid bills and drinks a heartfelt toast to all the under-
> appreciated English teachers in America....)
>
>
> hard-boiled sonnets
> http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/boiled.html
>
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