It is my intention, in reading together literary critics, artists, and theorists, to show how the development of Shakespeare’s conception of his own subjectivity develops over the course of his sonnet sequence. I will discuss and utilise the Jungian concept of individuation, and the Lacanian concept of desire, as well as language from the lexicon of the fifteenth and sixteenth … [Read more...]
Crown of Sonnets—Me in the Multiverse by Prince Bush
Crown of Sonnets—Me in the Multiverse My head’s four o’clock flowers sprout on cracks In the sidewalk during predawn, concrete and grass Prepares—too early, all asleep—bloom out my head. Last night, recalling the books of the boy I crush On, packing them, but left the backpack that could sponge A hit-and-run—if I would’ve remembered Whimpers my mother apropos what I … [Read more...]
Residual sonnets by Mark Young, reviewed by Clara B. Jones
Residual sonnets by Mark Young / ma press [Finland] / 2019 / 100 pages / $5.00 Residual [re-sid-ual] Adjective: remaining after the greater part has gone “'Bricolage,' more than anything else, is the term I would use to best describe my poetry.” Mark Young Mark Young is an internationally-recognized writer—creator of vispo and text-based poetry. He also is editor of … [Read more...]
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes reviewed by John Yohe
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes / Penguin / 2018 / paperback / 9780143133186 I knew Terrance Hayes' new book was going to be powerful when some of the poems appeared in the American Poetry Reviewrecently. I am not disappointed. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin is, I'm calling it, the best book of poetry of the year. It's … [Read more...]
Six sonnets by Bradley J. Fest
2014.01 I wish to transcribe Camera Obscura into your oscilloscopes, forsake the barriers of the next seventeen years for two little droplets of carbon nanofiber. I will. You’ll see. Many diamond filaments will crush you with their artificial currency, you’ll see. I already changed the shape of the envelope, its origami transmitted through arpeggios, keyboards, and … [Read more...]
