The so-called “fusion sonnet” appeared for the first time in a sum of published poems, entitled “The Hanging Verses Of Babylon”/"Οι Κρεμαστοί Στίχοι Της Βαβυλώνας" (Melani Books, Athens 2007), [ISBN 978-960-8309-78-4]. Into this collection of poems of various styles is included a poem called “Αγαπητέ Μπλεζ” which is a transformed sonnet consisted of 21 lines; in fact, this is a variable half of a "jazz" sonnet which is accompanied by a half sonnet as a coda. Both parts of the poem appear as a whole in a dismantled form of a series of 3, 2, 4, 3, 4, and 5 lined stanzas.
This poem, the first fusion-sonnet, was written in 1993, during my study upon Italian sonnets and songs, and was subtitled “Strambotto romagnuolo trasformato”.
The fusion sonnet is included in whole into the edition Akra / Poems 1990-2008 by Ekati Publications 2022.
See more details and references about fusion sonnets here:
- https://livadaspoetry.blogspot.fr/2012/07/blog-post_8.html
- https://thanetwriters.com/essay/form/what-is-a-sonnet/
- https://www.academia.edu/7402053/A_Short_History_of_the_Sonnet?fbclid=IwAR1tmv45-BvDtFPaiFnx6d1PzQyKd5L3dbSXVZL_ECRcpjPaKJZpswNKDbo
- http://writerslifeline.ca/Khatri-sonnets.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2H0qNzRO2G--10YxobFAl-vmP4dI5WRKAdzywWXUd6Mw30QzBY7Ngxo6s
- http://oer2go.org:81/wikipedia_en_all_novid_2017-08/A/Sonnet.html