Sonnet Yourself

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Let’s think about sonnets. Courtly love, subversive relationships, time-wrecked joy, and a deep reckoning with the contemporary you—the ever-present self in the poem. These are themes of the sonnet, which became Petrarch’s form in Italy in the 14th century and then Shakespeare’s in England in the early 17th century. And let’s not forget Wanda Coleman’s …