Sonnets, Sonnets, Sonnets! (Day 50 of 84)

"When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes, 

In colour black why wrapt she beams so bright?"

                                              --from Spencer, Astrophil and Stella (an example of the type of poem                                                Shakespeare is roasting in Sonnet 130.)

Pop Sonnets  (Contemporary Songs Re-Written in Sonnet Form)
     the Time Magazine article featuring a few Pop Sonnets is here.


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The Bean Trees:

--"Timeline: Guatemala's Brutal Civil War" (from PBS.org)
--"Guatemalan Army Stole Children . . ."
--"Children Were Routinely Kidnapped . . ."
--Kingsolver's Bean Trees as a Political Critique . . ."