Sonnets from the Dark Lady and Other Poems

Sonnets from the Dark Lady and Other Poems

A finalist for the Donald Justice Prize, Jennifer Reeserâ€™s third volume ranges from the light and amusing to the weighted and anguished. Twenty-seven of the poems in this collection present a tragicomic dialogue with William Shakespeare, through the persona of the Dark Lady addressed in his latter sonnets. Over seventy others present portraits-in-poetry of shops, performers and vendors in the famous French Quarter of New Orleans: candelabras, Carnival and cockroaches; the catastrophic events of the Louisiana hurricanes of 2005, and that stateâ€™s ensuing environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. By diverse styles and forms, from the ghazal and villanelle to sapphics to sonnets to the limerick, in blank verse and rhyme, in modes lyric, narrative and dramatic, the author communicates on love, faith, family, psychology, fashion, art and the forces of Nature; and not through her poems alone, but also through those of the French symbolist Charles Baudelaire, whose translations she offers in English form similar to those French versions in which they were first composed. This collection includes poems and translations previously published in such magazines and journals as The National Review, POETRY, LIGHT: A Quarterly of Light Verse, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, First Things, The Dark Horse, Unsplendid, Mezzo Cammin, American Arts Quarterly, Able Muse and MEASURE. It contains, as well, numerous nominees for the Pushcart and Best of the Net prize anthologies, with a foreword written by Australian editor, Paul Stevens, and with recommendations from National Review literary editor, Michael Potemra; Yale Scholar of the House in Poetry and author of Mortal Stakes / Faint Thunder, Timothy Murphy; and TRINACRIA editor, New York University professor, Dr. Joseph S. Salemi.
Country USA
Brand Saint James Infirmary Books
Manufacturer Saint James Infirmary Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber RKC2010750384
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EANs 9780615589503
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Saint James Infirmary Books
Manufacturer	Saint James Infirmary Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	RKC2010750384
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780615589503
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Sonnets from the Dark Lady and Other Poems

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