You Kiss by th' Book
Author: Soto, Gary
ISBN: 9781452148298
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 108
Dimensions: 9.016 inches x 5.984 inches x 0.512 inches
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
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 original while taking the 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.
ISBN: 9781452148298
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 108
Dimensions: 9.016 inches x 5.984 inches x 0.512 inches
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
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 original while taking the 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.
