This selection of "deformed sonnets" is part of a continuing cycle. The sonnets have been praised by Beckett's biographer Deirdre Bair ("poems to savor"), the composer William Osborne ("profound, honest, and beautiful"), the playwright Jay Jeff Jones "spare and simple as Chinese wisdom"), the historian Paul Buhle ("a message from the avant-garde past-never really past in our crumbling world-but as vivid as ever"). The radical author Supervert has...