I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.
Many varieties of sonnet, of course, have been written over the ages.
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
I do enjoy the form of things. I enjoy finding the form that seems best to fit what I'm thinking about. I don't set out to find a bizarre way of writing.
Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.