Post-modernist experimentation applied to the sonnet:
cut-up, collage, chance operations—whatever works. These sonnets are hermetic,
full of personal references you’d need to know Ted Berrigan to identify. Why
should you bother? I wouldn’t.
Except the work serves as an example and inspiration to create your own
hermetic work. Best way to read these sonnets: let the language, rhythms, and images
wash over you. The repetition and variations on line and theme build power and
momentum as you read. Meaning, except for the Berrigan scholar (or old friend), remains elusive and
largely what you make it. So? It’s more fun that way.
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