Category Archives: On the process of Writing

Sonnet Song — in progress

This is a work in progress, a to-be-tinkered-with revision of “Sonnet Song” — yesterday’s post. There are strange things done in the service of writing a sonnet; For example, the modern idiom doesn’t quite fit: Makes you think a pedantic … Continue reading

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Sonnet Song

The challenge of writing this sonnet is that I prefer free verse, and find that any excursion I take into forms such as the sonnet become canted by the dynamics of the form itself; for example, the inverted syntax of … Continue reading

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