Did he drink a lot of coffee? Yes, he did. 50-80 cups A DAY? How can this be? How can this be? Writing my essay about sonnets—a lot of emailing and asking friends what they think. Interested also in failed sonnets, what makes things not work in poetry. I imagine with sonnets you always have to be a little bit ahead of the form, a little bit more clever orirreverentor passionate or they just don’t work at all. This must be why often one will hear something like “she has mastered the form” beca...