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  • Genre:poetry
  • Sub-genre:American / General
  • Language:English
  • Pages:112
  • Paperback ISBN:9781543937107

The Wild Sonnets: Volume I (1-100)

By Nicholas Korn

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Overview

This first collection of 100 Wild Sonnets, published in 2019, contains some of my favorites from the entire sequence. I had just decided on the two seven-line stanzas to make up the 14 lines of the form, with their rhyming couplets at the close of each – and I think the writing at this stage of the project was uniquely rich and lyrically dense. In later books, I relaxed a little more into the lines – but this initial release strikes me still as uniquely muscular and musical.


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Description

NOTES ON THE WILD SONNETS | FROM NICHOLAS KORN 

Each of these books is like an art gallery – and you move from poem to poem the same way your would move from painting to painting (or sculpture, for that matter) at an exhibit.
 
I don't create the Wild Sonnets as messages – I create them as heightened experiences that refer or connect to different meanings that life presents us in its random and various ways.
 
I want these poems to combine an urgency of expression with a mastery of expression. I see the art of poetry not as the delivery of thoughts and feelings, but the elevation of thoughts and feelings to be simultaneously emotive, imaginative – and even physical and visceral – by a rich and dynamic use of language.
 
For me, poetry is the opposite of cliche. And that means cliche phrasing and cliche ideas. It's about creating an experience for the reader or listener, that is both unique and shared.
 
I want each Wild Sonnet to bring readers to a higher level of thinking and a deeper level of feeling – at the same time. 
 
This is my obligation to both the art and the audience.


Reviews for The Wild Sonnets: Volume I (1-100)

The first of a tradition
What a wonderful endeavor. I’m sure it’s destined to be the first of an epic series.
– Alissa S.


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About The Author

Nicholas Korn is a poet, playwright, filmmaker and composer. The first volume of Wild Sonnets was published in June 2018, with the second following in October 2019. Mr. Korn has since published a new volume of 100 Wild Sonnets every year.

His stage play, Delirium's Daughters, was featured Off-Broadway in 2015, and his film, Revel's Rivals, won the award for Best Animated Feature at the 2012 Louisville International Festival of Film. In the early aughts, he founded and ran Stage First Cincinnati – a theater company dedicated to the ancient Greeks, Moliere and the occasional Shakespeare. As an artist, he combines classicism with a curiosity for all things digital – honoring equally the tradition and the trend. He lives in the Greater Cincinnati area. For more on the Wild Sonnets, visit www.wildsonnets.com.

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