Sonnet 56 - Trenchart: Maneuvers Series Author:Paul Hoover Paul Hoover's Sonnet 56 mixes Love, Poetry and Shakespeare in a marvelous grab bag of form, wit and playfulness. Starting with Shakespeare's sonnet 56 Sweet love, renew thy force, be it not said / Thy edge should blunter be than appetite, Hoover writes 56 poetic variations, turning Shakespeare's sonnet into a series of new (and tra... more »ditional) forms, including: Villanelle, Noun Plus Seven, Limerick, Blues, Course Description, Flarf, Imagist, Tanka, Answering Machine, Rilke, Morse Code and Bad Writing. The result is a tender portrayal of love and an excellent survey of the possibilities within contemporary poetry.
Sonnet 56 is published as part of the TrenchArt: Maneuvers Series, with an Introduction by Oulipian Ian Monk and visual art by VD Collective.« less