Wednesday, October 24, 2012

 Chris Piuma's The Constellated Sonnets (self-published 1995). The work, he explains, is "a series of 150 poems in which all the words in each line but one are erased from Shakespeare's sonnets. The punctuation, as you'll see, is left behind," and "I randomly selected the words. (Rolling a d10; if a 6 came up, using the sixth word, and if there was no sixth word in that line, rerolling," on his blog. Here's his Sonnet 18 ("Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day"):
And, we can read the entire project in .pdf form, here.