You kiss by th' book : new poems from Shakespeare's line /
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 ot...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Francisco :
Chronicle Books,
[2016]
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| Summary: | 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 color 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 Bard's time and language and our own here and now. |
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| Physical Description: | 108 pages : portrait ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781452148298 1452148295 |