[New-Poetry] terror dactyls

Bob Grumman bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net
Sat Apr 5 13:18:12 EST 2008



shin02143 at aol.com wrote:
> They're sonnets mainly because Berrigan called them sonnets. If he 
> hadn't, they might not have been acknowledged as sonnets.
>
> Richard
>
Except that all kinds of other poets have abused the term.  It's the 
American way.  I just got an ad telling me I'd get some damned thing for 
free--by contributing $20 to some charity.  I call it nullinguistics.

--Bob G.



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