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You Kiss by th´ Book: New Poems from ShakespeareAEs Line
Gary Soto
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Description for You Kiss by th´ Book: New Poems from ShakespeareAEs Line
Paperback. Num Pages: 108 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
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 colour 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 ... Read more
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 colour 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Chronicle Books United States
Number of pages
108
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
108
Place of Publication
San Francisco, United States
ISBN
9781452148298
SKU
V9781452148298
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Gary Soto
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.
Reviews for You Kiss by th´ Book: New Poems from ShakespeareAEs Line
I read Gary Soto's poems with delight. There's no one I know, certainly in this language, who writes like him. -Gerald Stern If we needed any evidence that Shakespeare is still (in that horrible word) relevant, and if we needed any that Gary Soto is an authentic voice of what poetry can be-must be-at this ... Read more