FLAME & ASH : A Novella in 14 Sonnets
1 | "An olden sonnet"
2 | "He'd been this guy"
3 | "I always do"
4 | "Like olden days"
5 | "Think about philosophy"
6 | "A certain distance"
7 | "His lens"
8 | "Perhaps"
9 | "She is the moon!"
10 | "The mesh"
11 | "Strange elation"
12 | "Balance"
13 | "Back to the bar"
14 | "Trees!"
Subsequent sonnets:
1 | "I think" 1/2/06
2 | Why do we write poetry? 1/7/06
3 | "Scribbling's vigor" 1/8/06
4 | "Carved & shaped" 1/8/06
5 | "Yes! this car was stolen" 1/9/06
6 | "Inevident" 1/9/06
7 | "Petals" 1/10/06
8 | ARS POETICA: A Cycle of 14 Sonnets 1/13/06
9 | "Fleeting photo" 1/16/06
10 | "From forgotten music" 1/18/06
11 | The new chic 1/18/06
12 | "Sauntering to a somewhere" 1/24/06
13 | God's present predicament [quasi-sonnet] 1/28/06
14 | Unplanned Obsolescence 6/9/06
15 | On email scholarship 6/21/06
16 | Sir Gawain's sermon [singsong sonnet] 6/22/06
17 | "The flow" 6/23/06
18 | "In a shaded corner" 6/23/06
19 | "Through a curtain" [sonnet ars poetica] 7/26/06
[the above list is missing several sonnets at the moment -- catching up]
Earlier sonnets
1 | "Shall I compare you to a Shakespeare sonnet?" 10/2/05
2 | "romantic tropes"
3 | Form / Stream / Tow [rubai-sonnet]
4 | The Road of Life [char-sonnet]
5 | new moon [sliver sonnet]
6 | predawn imagination [etiolated sonnet]
7 | empathetic contemplation [etiolated]
8 | lyric dedication [etiolated]
9 | spare communication [etiolated]
10 | disappearing act [rubai-sonnet]
11 | Wintry Paradox
12 | "Escalator" [blank verse sonnet]
13 | Mechanic Bird in Journey [Petrarchan]
14 | "In solitude"
15 | "In semblance"
16 | "My happiness"
17 | "Winter's gelid circumstance"
18 | "Dangerous"
19 | "Tenebrous notions"
20 | "I am a Xmas pudding" [Petrarchan] 12/24/05
2 | "He'd been this guy"
3 | "I always do"
4 | "Like olden days"
5 | "Think about philosophy"
6 | "A certain distance"
7 | "His lens"
8 | "Perhaps"
9 | "She is the moon!"
10 | "The mesh"
11 | "Strange elation"
12 | "Balance"
13 | "Back to the bar"
14 | "Trees!"
Subsequent sonnets:
1 | "I think" 1/2/06
2 | Why do we write poetry? 1/7/06
3 | "Scribbling's vigor" 1/8/06
4 | "Carved & shaped" 1/8/06
5 | "Yes! this car was stolen" 1/9/06
6 | "Inevident" 1/9/06
7 | "Petals" 1/10/06
8 | ARS POETICA: A Cycle of 14 Sonnets 1/13/06
9 | "Fleeting photo" 1/16/06
10 | "From forgotten music" 1/18/06
11 | The new chic 1/18/06
12 | "Sauntering to a somewhere" 1/24/06
13 | God's present predicament [quasi-sonnet] 1/28/06
14 | Unplanned Obsolescence 6/9/06
15 | On email scholarship 6/21/06
16 | Sir Gawain's sermon [singsong sonnet] 6/22/06
17 | "The flow" 6/23/06
18 | "In a shaded corner" 6/23/06
19 | "Through a curtain" [sonnet ars poetica] 7/26/06
[the above list is missing several sonnets at the moment -- catching up]
Earlier sonnets
1 | "Shall I compare you to a Shakespeare sonnet?" 10/2/05
2 | "romantic tropes"
3 | Form / Stream / Tow [rubai-sonnet]
4 | The Road of Life [char-sonnet]
5 | new moon [sliver sonnet]
6 | predawn imagination [etiolated sonnet]
7 | empathetic contemplation [etiolated]
8 | lyric dedication [etiolated]
9 | spare communication [etiolated]
10 | disappearing act [rubai-sonnet]
11 | Wintry Paradox
12 | "Escalator" [blank verse sonnet]
13 | Mechanic Bird in Journey [Petrarchan]
14 | "In solitude"
15 | "In semblance"
16 | "My happiness"
17 | "Winter's gelid circumstance"
18 | "Dangerous"
19 | "Tenebrous notions"
20 | "I am a Xmas pudding" [Petrarchan] 12/24/05
posted by david raphael israel at 2:45 AM
2 Comments:
David,
You are right; his whole thing is very "ambitious" and very good. I like the idea of turning the form itself into a character. The dialogues between the two of you are also very finely done.
River -- as you have been this blog's most early, consistent and sensitive Commentor, I'm delighted to note your encouraging remarks here too.
For myself, I feel tremendously happy with those dialogues, yes. The character of the Gentleman-Sonnet took form & specificity to a degree I've not heretofore had the privilege of enjoying as a literary creator. So for me, I view this little work as a kind of "internal milestone" in terms of the terrain-of-the-possible vis-a-vis imagination & writing.
I'm also (at the moment) trying to wrap my mind around the question of physical publication (i.e., in some literary periodical) -- a thing I don't normally (these days) much think about. But I want to do the Sonnet the courtesy of such physical embodiment in the instance, since he traveled so far (and shared so generously). That gesture of his, I wish to show as having fallen not on heedless ears. Otherwise (quite otherwise) stated: I do entertain an idea that this "Novella" could prove of interest to a wider audience than typically shows up in this obscure corner of the Blogosphere. [Which is hardly to detract from my general happiness w/ dwelling in these so-comfy precincts.]
But all this is a digression (or musing) -- though even thinking about ink & paper & whatnot brings to my mind a happy feeling of the Gentleman's possible asides & quips in the instance.
thanks as always,
d.i.
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