FROM: Sonnetto Poesia ISSN 1705-4524
reviewed in this issue: Vol. 6 no. 1 winter 2007 pp. 12-14
Review of Sonnetto Poesia  by Christine Aikens Wolfe Pittsburgh poet and Reader extraordinaire Western Pennsylvania Writing Project University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of English |
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Review of Sonnetto Poesia by
Christine Aikens Wolfe (USA)
The opinions expressed in this editorial are those of
the writer and may or may not be those held by the
editors of the magazine Sonnetto Poesia. This review
is an actual letter/editorial sent by the writer to the editors
of the cultural section of several of the USA's larger city
magazines. Since the author lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania, she sent it to three newspapers in Pittsburgh. The
other papers include the Chicago Tribune Review, the
New York Times, The Village Voice, the Los Angeles
Times and the Washington Post. C. Wolfe
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To: Arts & Leisure Section Editor(s)
Okay, lovely readers. You often (or occasionally) look to
this column to find out about the latest and greatest books
to read, concerts to attend, CDs to buy But I have
something elegant and different to offer to you, a literary
magazine that showcases sonnets!
Ah! Now that I have you slavering and hungry, I want to
double the pleasure as discover the quarterly with the
euphonious name Sonnetto Poesia. It's an international
magazine. That is correct, you'll be reading living poets
from Canada, England, dear old USA, Turkey, Australia,
South Africa; in short, sonneteers who write in English or
French. There's the olive to top your cultural cocktail, two
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languages under one cover; both the language of the
cultured as we know from reading Dostoyevsky, et al.
So, who (I hear you cry) lurks inside the covers of
Sonnetto Poesia? Good one. You'll find the famous &
the neophyte poets, humorous & serious ones. Along
with familiar poets such as Norman Ball, Michael Burch,
Michael Cope, Sara Russell and Richard Vallance, you'll read
sonnets by "The Potato of Terror", all of whose work stems
from a potato's perspective, witty, ironic, seasonal, side-splitting.
You can read through "A Day" by Mitchell Geller ... "Day 44" begins:
The pact between the living and the dead
requires that we who live behave ourselves
So now you understand why you'll race to your mailbox each
season to grasp your own personal copy. Rich language, raucous
buffoonery, grief that spills out onto the page (you will weep
reading these); it's all here. Vampires, Shakespeare-eulogized,
an ode to green (pardon my loose language, that's a sonnet in G);
not only do the poems traverse topics you're dying to read about, but
bonus! there is always an editorial by the erudite editor
Richard Vallance, which will enlighten you about for example
why Rupert Brooke's poetry cries out to us even today about the
vainglory of war. Learn & luxuriate!
Try this sonnet by Sara Russell (first editor of Poetry Life & Times
on-line) for you cat lovers and those who are not yet cat lovers.
And then one final comment:
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My cat has seen me turning on the light
That turns a gloomy room to brightest day.
I switch the television on at night
And flick a switch to make my records play.
I cause great doors to open up for him,
To let his Fluffsome Lordship saunter through,
I turn on taps for water on a whim,
Or close the curtains to obscure the view.
So, when it rains, he gives me such a stare
As turns the milk to yoghurt in a trice,
To silently enquire how I might dare
To make the weather any less than nice.
My darling cat, although I feel your pain,
Humans are not responsible rain.
by Sara L. Russell 2002
What remains to be said? Quick, off to the computer,
google (or use your preferred search engine for)
Sonnetto Poesia and follow the link:
http://sonnettopoesiahome.homestead.com/index.html
Put some fun in your life. Try dancing-in-print!
Christine Aikens Wolfe
ADDENDUM by Richard Vallance, publisher of Sonnetto
Poesia.
Sonnetto Poesia ISSN 1705-4524 is listed in
Poet's Market 2007
and in every subsequent annual issue
Further Reading on the Pandora Box:
- Radiance, by B. Crooker: A Review
- For the March 2007 Pandora Box Reviews, Robin Ouzman gives us a review on Barbara Crooker's Radiance
- Hinterland 2000, by Robin Ouzman Hislop
- This month in the Pandora Box we introduce the first section of the 2 Trilogies In Memoria Collected Poems by our Editor Robin Ouzman Hislop. A section will appear each month of the two trilogies. The First Trilogy of 2 Trilogies in Memoria includes: Hinterland 2000; Blue Corn 2002; After the Cave, the Comet 2004.
- Literary Review on Ancient Heart Anthology 2006
- Poet Katherine Gordon on Ancient Heart Anthology 2006
- Vallance & Russell: An Interview
- Richard Vallance gives us an interview with Sara Russell as published by The Vallance Review, sub-edited by PLT
- Aberjhani: An Interview
- by Randy Barfield, sub-edited by PLT
- Elisha Porat as a visual poet
- Elisha Porat: a few Hebrew texts.
- Moon calendar + music files
- by PLT artists.
- Poetic Portal
- A Little Archive Of Poetry.
- Review on Universes Beyond the Visible, by OneLight* publishers
- A review by Robin Ouzman.
- Review on This Eternal Hubbub (Joe Ruggier)
- A brief article by Amparo Arrospide
- unquiet desperation
- Edited by M. Drabble, reaching all cafes worldwide.
- an article by Ian Thorpe
- A parallel study of "IF" by R. Kypling.
- tesa duncan
- Editor of Wakan e-zine, Tesa Duncan shows her poetry arms here.
- OneLight*
- Featuring poets Alexandra and Joseph, editors of OneLight*.
- p. williams on p.larkin
- On P. Larkin, by a challenging poet in his own right.
- potato terror
- By the infamous reviewer The Potato of Terrors, on Lewis Carroll.
- amalia iglesias
- Bilingual versions from the Spanish poet.
- Andres Fisher
- By the award-winning Chilean-American poet.
- Ancient Heart Anthology
- A review of this Anthology book by our co-editor.
- Lunasda 2006
- From Pagan Poetry Pages.
- Our little shop
- An online shop for issues published and books reviewed by Poetry LifeandTimes.
- A gallery of paintings
- By our co-editor Amparo Arrospide
- The Perils of Norris
- By our former editor Sara L Russell.
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