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The Wild Sonnets: Volume I (1-100)

by Nicholas Korn
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781543937107
  • Binding: Paperback
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  • Publisher: Bookbaby
  • Publisher Imprint: Bookbaby
  • Publication Date: N/A
  • Pages: 112
  • Original Price: INR 975.0
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 159 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): American / General

This collection presents first one hundred Wild Sonnets in the ongoing sequence by poet, dramatist and filmmaker, Nicholas Korn.

While the poems in this series are not sonnets in the strict sense--they are fourteen lines of ambling iambic, most often pent up in a pentameter, but occasionally not.

Divided into two stanzas of seven lines each, the only definitely placed rhymes are the couplets that cap lines 6 & 7 and 13 &14. The remaining rhymes, when they occur, are in turn, internal.

As for the style--the wild sonnets are meant to be dramatic in nature, almost short soliloquies that seem to be an immediate, poetic response to some thought or comment that has just been spoken or introduced. If they are reminiscent of the Renaissance, it would be of the stage more than the pages of Sidney or Spenser.


- 38 -
Amid the mad immediate I sing,
Whether it be in omen of what's yet
To come, or amen for all that has.
Are we not in the eye of wonder,
Whether in the glinting rain or sheen
Of snow, in recollection's echo, or the ache
That after triumph takes not long to overtake?

Time touches us but briefly, like the strings
Of some strange instrument, fashioned
To be played by everything, but timbred, grained
And shaped in chords and colors of our own.
Subtle in song, ensemble and solo both--
Whatever melody and the moment bring
Will I to the havoc of heaven's hearing sing.

Nicholas Korn is a filmmaker, playwright, poet and composer. His stage play, Delirium's Daughters, was featured Off-Broadway in 2015, and his film, Revel's Rivals, won the award for Best Animated Feature at the 2012 Louisville International Festival of Film.

In the early aughts, he founded and ran Stage First Cincinnati - a theater company dedicated to the ancient
Greeks, Moliere and the occasional Shakespeare.

As an artist, he combines classicism with a curiosity for all things digital - honoring equally the tradition and the trend. The Wild Sonnets is an ongoing poetry project that will probably finish at the same time he does.

For the most current poems in the series, visit www.nicholaskorn.com.

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