A thorough but nonacademic cornucopia of sonnets.
Sonnets in Fairyland. Fairyland's creator. A not entirely reliable transcription for part of the pages I quote.
Shakespeare: sonnet 29.
George Starbuck: "Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line."
Elements of present-day sonnets: formal play. Sequence, or dailiness. A sense of history.
On Berrigan's The Sonnets.
One of Mayer's sonnets: "You jerk." Juliana Spahr's essay about them.
A useful essay about Merrill's The Broken Home. Many other Merrill poems (for more use of sonnets as stanzas, try "Matinees").
Rita Dove: sonnets from Mother Love, incl. "Protection." Massive Attack's song "Protection."
Juan Felipe Herrera's sonnet-like poems on an artist's adaptation of lotería cards. Actual standard lotería cards.
Heaney's sequence "Clearances." Heaney's sonnet "The Nod."
Bishop's sonnet called "Sonnet." A rainbow bird. Another lovely rainbow.
Sonnets are train cars. Sonnets are your piano.
Go here to hear Mayer. Mayer's experiments.
Not a sonnet. A place to go.
Paul Muldoon's ox (see image from Google Books).
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.
