30days30poets: Billy Collins’ “American Sonnet”
This week, our poetry selections have explored “singing” the American experience. Today’s poem also takes up this subject, though from a different vantage point. In “American Sonnet,” Billy Collins compares the traditional Italian or English sonnet to a postcard, which he describes as “a poem on vacation, / that forces us to sing our songs in little rooms / or pour our sentiments into measuring cups.”
