[New-Poetry] Merrill Moore's sonnets

[TheOldMole]

Edward Gorey did some collaborations with Merrill Moore.

shin02143 at aol.com wrote:
> Has anyone here read any of Merrill Moore's 50,000-odd sonnets? About 
> 1500 of them have made it into print. He was a psychiatrist/MD. I 
> believe one of his patients was Robert Lowell. Moore wrote sonnets at 
> any and every possible opportunity, including scribbling while waiting 
> in his car at a red light. Some are quite free-form including 
> irregular line lengths, odd rhyme schemes, sometimes other than 14 
> lines. An interesting fellow. Amazing output for someone who had a 
> full career as a doctor and only lived into his 50s.
>
> Richard
>
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