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Sonnet with Empty Pockets
- Colorado Review
- Center for Literary Publishing
- Volume 44, Number 3, Fall/Winter 2017
- pp. 126-127
- 10.1353/col.2017.0103
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
This poem is about a father’s sexual abuse of his daughter. The structure of a sonnet with “empty pockets” is used to convey the fragmentary nature of traumatic memory.
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