You Kiss by th' Book
New Poems from Shakespeare's Line
In his engaging new collection, National Book Award finalist Gary Soto creates poems that each begin with a line from Shakespeare and then continue in Soto's fresh and accessible verse. Drawing on moments from the sonnets, Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and others, Soto illuminates aspects of the source material while taking his poems in directions of their own, strategically employing the color of thee and thine, kings, thieves, and lovers. The results are inspired, by turns meditative, playful, and moving, and consistently fascinating for the conversation they create between the Bard's time and language and ou…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4521-4856-4
- EAN: 9781452148564
- Produktnummer: 22569444
- Verlag: Chronicle Books LLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 108 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'341 KB
Über den Autor
Gary Soto is the author of 11 poetry collections for adults, including New and Selected Poems, a finalist for the National Book Award. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines and publications. He lives in Berkeley, California.
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