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Kim Bridgford’s ‘A Crown for the Divorcée ’

May 27, 2021 by DAVID M KATZ in Kim Bridgford, Sonnet Crown, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound

For the subject of “A Crown for the Divorcee at Fifty-Nine,” Kim Bridgford’s late masterpiece, the initial effect of divorce seems to be self-cancellation.

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May 27, 2021 /DAVID M KATZ
Kim Bridgford, Sonnet Crown, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Henry James, T.S. Eliot
Kim Bridgford, Sonnet Crown, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound
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HOW SONNETS SAY WHAT MUST BE SAID

May 06, 2021 by DAVID M KATZ in Molly Peacock, Elvis Presley, Sonnet, Bob Dylan

Echoing Elvis Presley’s hit tune, the poet Molly Peacock shows how “now or never moments” find expression in the sonnet form.

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May 06, 2021 /DAVID M KATZ
Molly Peacock, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Sonnet
Molly Peacock, Elvis Presley, Sonnet, Bob Dylan
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