Henri Matisse: Drawings 1936

By Henri Matisse

A collection written over fifty years, Makes You Stop and Think is the latest work from the accomplished and renowned poet Daniel Hoffman.

"The sonnet is a sacred // vessel, it takes a civilization / to conceive its shape or know / its uses," the poet Louise Bogan told "a crowd of bearded youths" and "rumpled girls." Hoffman's harvest of half a century's sonnets shows the richness and power of their form. These poems revel in exploring memory and feeling:

For reality is vintage and delicious
Especially when you taste it while it brews
Because it comes as love comes, heart-skip sudden,
Yet long as a lifetime in a once past wishes,
A gift you couldn't have the wit to choose.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080761565X
• ISBN13: 9780807615652
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: George Braziller
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 2.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.0" x 13.3"