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Sixty-Six

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Sixty-Six is devoted to the sonnet form, in English and the other languages in which it has flourished. In each issue, readers will discover original sonnets and sonnets in English translation, articles on the history of the form and its contemporary use and variations, and explications of particular sonnets, sequences, or sonneteers, and reprints of previously published sonnets deserving of a wider audience.

In VOLUME I, NUMBER 1, FEBRUARY 2008:

a 66 FEATURE: Jill McDonough's Execution Sonnets

  • Editors' Note
  • "The Poet on Her Poems" by jill mcdonough
  • A Bibliography of Jill McDonough’s Execution Sonnets
    Appearing in Other Publications
  • A Selection of Sonnets: "August 6, 1890: William Kemmler", "July 8, 1797: Abraham Johnstone", "May 21, 1997: Bruce Edwin Callins", and "October 8, 1789: Rachel Wall"

ESSAYS

  • Christopher Bakken, "Robert Lowell in 14 Lines"
  • Christina Mengert, "On Translation"
  • Stephen Tapscott, "Poems from the Sonetos del amor oscuro"
  • Meg Tyler, "Paths and Aftermaths: Heaney & Longley's Recent Sonnets"

SONNETS

  • Charles Baudelaire, "The Wretched Monk", translated from French by Richard Gibson
  • S�ol Bhodth�, "Pearl Necklace"
  • Philip Brady, "Mendocino", "Berkely"
  • Philip Christensen, "Ezra Pound on the Threshold of Calvary", "Life Sentence"
  • Alan Clinton, "Relic Haps", "Solitaire"
  • Temple Cone, "Matchwood"
  • Herbert Eulenburg, "On My Wife's First White Hair", "To the Rhine", translated from German by Zachary Bos and Nora Delaney
  • Erika Greber, "Shakespyromaniac Sonnet"
  • S�ndor K�ny�di, "Loose Sonnet", in Polish as translated from Hungarian by Jerzy Snopek, and in English as translated from Polish by Tom Delaney
  • Federico Garc�a Lorca, "Sonnet of the Rose-Wreath", "The Poet Talks with His Love on the Telephone", "The Poet Asks His Love to Write to Him", "Song of the Tender Complaint" translated from Spanish by Stephen Tapscott
  • Emily Merriman, "The Fig Tree", "Sonnet III"
  • Richard Newman, "Your Gaze", " Like This"
  • Francesco Petrarca, Sonnets 15, 35 and 40, translated from Italian by Christina Mengert
  • Karl Riha, "Pyromaniac Sonnet"

ARCHIVES

REVIEWS

  • Nora Delaney, "Orphic Naming in Karen Volkman's Nomina", "Triny Finlay's Splitting Off"

CLEARING HOUSE - a listing of sonnets in print

 
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