Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff

By Robert Thomas

Book Overview

A fresh and modern take on one of the most classic poetic forms in the Western literary tradition.

"What if creatures in other galaxies / have a vague sense that something is missing, / but don't know it's Little Richard, Shakespeare, / and cornbread with plum jam?" In this collection, Robert Thomas presents eighty nontraditional sonnets that explore love and jealousy--the traditional obsessions of sonnets--from nontraditional angles. Other galaxies are jealous of Earth in these heartbreaking, funny, ecstatic, profound, and never boring poems.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887486916
• ISBN13: 9780887486913
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"