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The diaspora sonnets
In 1972, after Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, Oliver de la Paz's father, in a last fit of desperation to leave the Philippines, threw his papers at an immigration clerk, hoping to get them stamped. He was prepared to leave, having already quit his job and exchanged pesos for dollars; but he couldn't anticipate the migratory lifestyle he and his family would soon adopt in America. Their search for a sense of 'home' is evocatively explored by award-winning poet de la Paz in this formally inventive collection of sonnets. Poems flit with dulcet lyricism and nostalgia from coast to coast, across prairies and deserts, along the way musing on shadowy dreams of a faraway country.
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The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and e. e. cummings. The chapters explore how we think of the sonnet as a 'lyric' and what is involved in actually trying to write one. The book includes a lively discussion between three distinguished contemporary poets - Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler - on the experience of writing a sonnet, and a chapter which traces the sonnet's diffusion across manuscript, print, screen and the internet. A fresh and authoritative overview of this major poetic form, the Companion expertly guides the reader through the sonnet's history and development into the global multimedia phenomenon it is today.
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The Cambridge companion to the sonnet
\"Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and e. e. cummings. The chapters explore how we think of the sonnet as a 'lyric' and what is involved in actually trying to write one. The book includes a lively discussion between three distinguished contemporary poets - Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler - on the experience of writing a sonnet, and a chapter which traces the sonnet's diffusion across manuscript, print, screen and the internet. A fresh and authoritative overview of this major poetic form, the Companion expertly guides the reader through the sonnet's history and development into the global multimedia phenomenon it is today\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Love
This title examines the theme of love in Divergent, Of Mice and Men, Shakespeare's sonnets, and Disney fairy tales, primarily Frozen. It features four analysis papers that consider the love theme, each using different critical lenses, writing techniques, or aspects of the theme.
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African American Sonnets
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References and Further Reading
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The displaced of capital
The long-awaited follow-up to The Key to the City—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986—Anne Winters's The Displaced of Capital emanates a quiet and authoritative passion for social justice, embodying the voice of a subtle, sophisticated conscience. The \"displaced\" in the book's title refers to the poor, the homeless, and the disenfranchised who populate New York, the city that serves at once as gritty backdrop, city of dreams, and urban nightmare. Winters also addresses the culturally, ethnically, and emotionally excluded and, in these politically sensitive poems, writes without sentimentality of a cityscape of tenements and immigrants, offering her poetry as a testament to the lives of have-nots. In the central poem, Winters witnesses the relationship between two women of disparate social classes whose friendship represents the poet's political convictions. With poems both powerful and musical, The Displaced of Capital marks Anne Winters's triumphant return and assures her standing as an essential New York poet.
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“I lock you in an American sonnet”: Terrance Hayes’s Public Lyric and American Antiauthoritarianism
This article reads Terrance Hayes’s American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (2018) at the intersection of antiauthoritarian discourses— rooted in the legacies of US chattel slavery and in mid-twentieth-century European history—and scholarly conversations about lyric poetry. I argue that Hayes’s unrhymed sonnets—written in response to the 2016 election of Donald Trump—constitute a public lyric. The sonnets are public because they explicitly denounce Trump and were advertised as such, yet Hayes willfully grounds his attempt to unseat a president in the conventions of lyric subjectivity. Throughout the collection, Hayes plays on two major themes of anti-authoritarian literature—the liberating potential of writing and of sex—yet he embeds these themes in poems that talk among themselves rather than narrate their way to freedom. Maximizing the public claims of his poems, Hayes makes the sonnet sequence a coup d’état; maximizing the sequence’s lyric power, Hayes reminds us time and again that he’s talking to himself as much as he’s talking to us.
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