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“Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind”: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Alchemy and Individuation by William Bishop

William Bishop

‘Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind’: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Alchemy and Individuation by William Bishop

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 … [Read more...]

Crown of Sonnets—Me in the Multiverse by Prince Bush

Prince Bush

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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 … [Read more...]

Residual sonnets by Mark Young, reviewed by Clara B. Jones

Clara B. Jones

Residual sonnets - Mark Young

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, … [Read more...]

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes reviewed by John Yohe

John Yohe

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

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 … [Read more...]

Six sonnets by Bradley J. Fest

Bradley J. Fest

G.C.D. - D. Enck

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 … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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