For this month’s Famous People poem, Barbara Hamby’s “What Profit is there in Being Marlene Dietrich”
What profit is there in being Marlene Dietrich
if you don’t rip the intestines out of some dummkopf
who adores you? […]
This sonnet starts off with a roar — I admit I’m a sucker for poems that use sound combos like “intestines” and “dummkopf” in a single line. It’s a great setup for the attitude of the poem, and a really turn after the line break. Continue reading
