{"product_id":"imaginary-sonnets-poems-9781773491288","title":"Imaginary Sonnets: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Daniel Galef's \u003cem\u003eImaginary Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e, a cast of people and objects from mythology, history, the news, and the quotidian parades through a variety of imaginative scenarios. In dialogues, dramatic monologues, satires, lamentations, eulogies, and execrations, the sonnets adopt perspectives ranging from the familiar to the novel to the twisty and surprising. Characters include not only widely known figures such as Cassandra, Pandora, St. Augustine, Byron, and Doris Day, but also obscure ones such as Henrique of Melacca, Emmett Till's father, John Taurek, and-more startling-a salmon, a snowflake, and a pair of parallel lines. \u003cem\u003eImaginary Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e entertains and entrances with every turn of the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eIMAGINARY SONNETS\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI love sonnet sequences, and Daniel Galef has written a rollicking collection that is alive with wit, intelligence, and wild imagination, as in the poem of unrequited love between two parallel lines. If you want to know what Cézanne has to say, not to mention Cassandra, Alcibiades, and \"Parmenides to Doris Day,\" then dig into this cornucopia of crazy, formal fun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Barbara Hamby, author of \u003cem\u003eHoloholo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Galef's sonnet cycle is a rare feat of empathy, wit, style, and (as the title hints) imagination. I'm thankful to have this book, in which the messy overlaps of life are somehow illuminated in work of astonishing, clear-eyed discipline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Jack Pendarvis, author of \u003cem\u003eMovie Stars\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Galef's debut collection, Imaginary Sonnets, demonstrates his mastery of the form as well as his ability to reinvigorate it with wit and experimentation. These fourteen-line biographies and tales open up a world, largely drawn from literature, that your history books ignored and that you will enjoy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- A. M. Juster, author of \u003cem\u003eWonder and Wrath\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sonnet is one nifty little container, isn't it! Each of these poems contains its own tiny library-of books, sure, but life experiences, history . . . okay, everything, from Pandora (she of the box full of imps) to Casey (he of the Mudville Nine) and beyond. There's even a taco talking to a chalupa, and I'm not making that up. Nobody could make that up except Daniel Galef.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- David Kirby, author of \u003cem\u003eHelp Me, Information\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Galef was born and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent his afternoons on the veranda of Square Books. After studying philosophy and classics at McGill University in Montreal, he received his MFA from the fiction program at Florida State University in Tallahassee. His poetry covers a diverse range of styles and genres, including light verse (\u003cem\u003eLight Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eSaturday Evening Post\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post Style Invitational\u003c\/em\u003e), children's literature (\u003cem\u003eSpider\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eCaterpillar, School Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e), and serious formal poetry (\u003cem\u003eAble Muse, Atlanta Review\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eLyric\u003c\/em\u003e). Besides poems, he also writes fiction (\u003cem\u003eIndiana Review, Juked\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eBest Small Fictions\u003c\/em\u003e anthology), nonfiction (\u003cem\u003eWord Ways, Working Classicists\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eJournal of Compressed Creative Arts\u003c\/em\u003e), humor and satire (\u003cem\u003eAmerican Bystander, NationalLampoon.com\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eJournal of Irreproducible Results\u003c\/em\u003e), and plays (Players' Theatre Montréal, Théâtre MainLine Theatre). In 2022 he placed second in the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e cartoon caption contest. 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