Tag: sonnet

The duplex is a poetic form invented by Jericho Brown, fourteen sonnet-like lines distributed in a way akin to the ghazal, which the poet describes as an effort to 'gut' the sonnet. The sonnet is the poetic form par excellence, strict though expansive, recurrent throughout the history of literature from Petrarca to Shakespeare and from … Continue reading Jericho Brown // Duplex (I Begin with Love)