INVITATION
Your comment for publication about a sonnet in this revision
is welcomed.
is welcomed.
My 2015 prosimetrum with 154 sonnets, Thanks for Noticing: The Interpretation of Desire, locally sold out quickly. I'm now ready to publish a revision, and the existing "blurbs" and reviews of the book are already excellent and need no changes.
For a wider reach, I am collecting commentary on specific sonnets to be published as a companion volume and on line. These comments will be introduced with a note that commentators are responding only to specific sonnets and have not reviewed the entire book.
I want honest comments from many
perspectives: disagreeable comments are certainly welcome. Comments can
treat the meaning of the sonnet, its technical features, how it
reflects (or fails to reflect) Shakespeare's 1609 Sonnets, or
tangents to the sonnet you'd like to write about — political, musical, scientific, religious, sexual, literary, legal,
nautical, psychological, social, or any other interest the sonnet might
call to mind that you'd wish to explore. You'll help me select the sonnet that might best interest you. Comments should be at least three good paragraphs and longer if you wish. You’ll provide me with a bio so you can be properly credited. More than a dozen such comments are already on line.
* Here's my bio.
* Here's background for the revision.
* Here's a review of the English sonnet form.
* Here's a surfeit of communications about the 2015 edition.
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For more information, write me at vern@cres.org.
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