Brad Lussier was studying for his degree in English and American literature at Brown University, and he discovered not only the sonnet form of poetry, but also a love for the sonnet. Graduation, family, work, and career intervened, until, years later, he joined a local theater company. And there he rediscovered his love for the sonnet.
As he notes in his introduction to his collection of sonnets, How Does He Love Me?, the sonnet has something unusual about it apart from its rhyming and meter scheme. It may be the only poetic form intended for an audience of one. The sonnet is most closely associated to love poetry, and a poet doesn’t write a love poem to multitudes of people. Traditionally, sonnets are all about passion, desire, admiration, adoration, and all the other intense emotions that result from a person’s love for another.
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