{"title":"Poetry--Sonnets","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"scanty-plot-of-ground-a-book-of-sonnets","title":"Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn essential anthology of beloved classics, hidden treasures and standout contemporary examples of this ever-vital and enthralling verse form.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the introduction to his selection of some of the greatest sonnets ever written, Paul Muldoon reminds us that part of the reason for the \"durability\" of the sonnet is its \"very specific duration.\" It is the perfect length for what Dante Gabriel Rossetti described as \"a moment's monument\" or William Wordsworth as a \"scanty plot of ground\" offering \"brief solace\" for those who \"have felt the weight of too much liberty.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong the poets included in this centuries-spanning edition are Elizabeth Bishop, Wanda Coleman, John Donne, Terrance Hayes, John Keats, Claude McKay, Edna St Vincent Millay, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Patricia Smith and W. 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There are also translations by Muldoon of sonnets by Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke and César Vallejo, as well as the duo of Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0571373445\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780571373444\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Muldoon, Paul\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Nov 2025)","offer_id":46080979894469,"sku":"9780571373444","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780571373444.jpg?v=1776042571"},{"product_id":"100-poems","title":"100 Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected poems from a Nobel laureate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e 100 Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems, and will discover new favorites, from \"The Cure at Troy\" to \"Death of a Naturalist.\" It is a singular and welcoming anthology, reaching far and wide, for now and for years to come. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeamus Heaney had the idea to make a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, a collection small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, but now, finally, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. No other selection of Heaney's poems exists that has such a broad range, drawing from the first to the last of his prizewinning collections.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0374538972\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780374538972\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Heaney, Seamus\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Aug 2020)","offer_id":46081401946309,"sku":"9780374538972","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780374538972.jpg?v=1776045480"},{"product_id":"transitions-new-and-selected-sonnets","title":"Transitions: New and Selected Sonnets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew and selected sonnets from a treasured poet who \"insists upon the rawness of experience and the metamorphosis of form with equal fervor and makes them both speak with the same voice\" (W. S. Merwin). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of her celebrated fifty-year career, Marilyn Hacker has continuously proven to be a timely, fearless, and lauded poet highly skilled in a wide variety of forms--most famously, the sonnet. \u003ci\u003eTransitions\u003c\/i\u003e is her first volume consisting entirely of the beloved form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHacker is a poet of quiet mastery. In her hands, the sonnet, despite the stricture of meter and rhyme, blooms into a living, breathing thing, one that's contemporary, confessional, and subversive. Sentences effortlessly fall into formal constraint, and words that evoke the pleasure of everyday language become Petrarchan rhymes. As Jan Heller Levi wrote, \"No one writes about lust and lunch like Marilyn Hacker. And certainly no one has done more to demonstrate that form has nothing to do with formula.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom her early sonnets to those written decades later, this book offers a portrait of the seasons of an extraordinary life, a life lived between New York, Paris, and Beirut as an activist, a polyglot, and a queer woman. We see Hacker's speaker grappling with young motherhood, the dissolution of her heterosexual marriage, middle age, relationships with women, chronic illness, care received from her adult child, and her old age, all while confronting geopolitical tension and global tragedies, from the AIDS epidemic to the war in Gaza. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTransitions\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable celebration of a life lived in verse. 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