Makes You Stop and Think: Sonnets

By Daniel Hoffman

The sonnet... is a sacred / vessel, it takes a civilization / to conceive its shape or know / its uses, the poet Louise Bogan told a crowd of bearded youths and rumpled girls. Hoffman's harvest of half a century's sonnets shows the richness and power of their form. These poems revel in exploring memory and feeling:

For reality is vintage and delicious
Especially when you taste it while it brews
Because it comes as love comes, heart-skip sudden,
Yet long as a lifetime in a once past wishes,
A gift you couldn't have the wit to choose.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807615617
• ISBN13: 9780807615614
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: George Braziller
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.5"