The so-called “fusion sonnet” appeared for the first time in a sum of 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”.
All the fusion sonnets I wrote during the 90's appear in the edition entitled Akra - Poems 1990-2008 published in 2022 by Ekati Publications.
