A Bench for Billie Holiday: 70 Sonnets

by James Nash

In A Bench for Billie Holiday, James Nash tenderly retraces seventy years of life through seventy new sonnets. Whether lightly sketching moments of truth or revisiting his younger self with the benefit of insight and experience, he imbues each fourteen-line fragment with wit, wisdom and wonder.

Looking back from various locations, each ideal for serious thought (whether the train, a bike or a sea-facing bench), he pieces together autobiographical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912436094
• ISBN13: 9781912436095
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Valley Press
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.1" x 7.8"