June 15, 2018
Pros[onn]e[t]
[Continued from “Crawlspace”] * Thinking about contemporary sonnets, shadow sonnets, American Sonnets, and so on and so[nnet] on, I’m fascinated both by the poems themselves and by what the poems […]
April 10, 2018
American Sonnets (Part XIX: The Pure Products of America)
[Continued from: “American Sonnets (Part XVIII: From the French for…)”] Rimbaud’s addition to the lineage of both disguised form a la Auden and the “American” sonnet is more than speculative; […]
November 4, 2013
Rimbaud the Prodigy
We are used to mathematical prodigies—a Ramanujan, a Pascal, an Evariste Gaulois—leaping to some early, complete insight closed off to the merely talented or well-practiced. Musical prodigies, too, are well-documented; […]