“Sonnet with Ark and Tug” is one of a sequence of 15 sonnets, but like the child’s cry in the poem, it also stands alone. The varieties of jealousy are a theme throughout the book, and here it’s the plink-plinker’s jealousy of the virtuoso musician, the deep loneliness of a quiet child lost in the cacophony of Noah’s ark, the introvert at the Star Wars cantina.
Robert Thomas on "Sonnet with Ark and Tug" |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Heather Green on Language as Form
“In ‘Some Things I Said,’ David Ferry turns to his own work, his single-authored poems and translations, and draws forth a new poem in a new form, an elemental assemblage of fragments, lines sometimes presented almost exactly as they were in the source poem and other times altered.” |
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