Sonnets

Last week, I went to hear the poet Charles Stein read at Moe's Books in Berkeley. He's my daughter's neighbor, so I had an introduction. Talking with him, I mentioned that I was writing sonnets. "When I was in college," he replied, "my roommate and I used to compete to see who could write them faster." Stein writes remarkably long, convoluted, and difficult poems. He's also translated the Odyssey, which I really liked.

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