{"product_id":"sixty-sonnets-paperback","title":"Sixty Sonnets - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErnest Hilbert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalculated to reflect the sixty minutes in an hour of heightened imaginative contemplation, the poems in Ernest Hilbert's first book, \u003ci\u003eSixty Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e, contain memories of violence, historical episodes, humorous reflections, quiet despair, violent discord, public outrage, and private nightmares. A cast of fugitive characters share their desperate lives--failed novelists, forgotten literary critics, cruel husbands, puzzled historians, armed robbers, jobless alcoholics, exasperated girlfriends, high school dropouts, drowned children, and defeated boxers. These characters populate love poems (\"My love, we know how species run extinct\"), satires (\"The way of the human variety, \/ Not even happy just being happy\"), elegies (\"The cold edge of the world closed on you, kissed \/ You shut\"), and songs of sorrow (\"Seasons start slowly. They end that way too\"). The original rhyme scheme devised for this sequence--ABCABCDEFDEFGG--allows the author to dust off of the Italian \"little song\" and Americanize the Elizabethan love poem for the twenty-first century. Speaking at times in propria persona (\"We'll head out, you and me, have a pint\"), at times in the voice of both male and female characters (\"I'm sorry I left you that day at MoMA\"), at times across historical gulfs (\"Caesar and Charlemagne, Curie, Capone\"), \u003ci\u003eSixty Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e marshals both trivia and tragedy to tell stories of modern America, at last achieving a hard-won sense of careful optimism, observing \"the last, noble pull of old ways restored, \/ Valued and unwanted, admired and ignored.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnest Hilbert\u003c\/b\u003e is the editor of the \u003ci\u003eContemporary Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He was educated at Oxford University, where he edited the \u003ci\u003eOxford Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. He later became the poetry editor for Random House's magazine \u003ci\u003eBold Type \u003c\/i\u003ein New York City and edited the magazine \u003ci\u003enowCulture\u003c\/i\u003e. He is an antiquarian book dealer in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife, an archaeologist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 15, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47426096791730,"sku":"9781597093613","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/c37418644fde4bd8309b7fff51a58358.webp?v=1778509867","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/sixty-sonnets-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}