{"product_id":"sonnets-with-two-torches-and-one-cliff-9780887486913","title":"Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fresh and modern take on one of the most classic poetic forms in the Western literary tradition.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"What if creatures in other galaxies \/ have a vague sense that something is missing, \/ but don't know it's Little Richard, Shakespeare, \/ and cornbread with plum jam?\" In this collection, Robert Thomas presents eighty nontraditional sonnets that explore love and jealousy--the traditional obsessions of sonnets--from nontraditional angles. Other galaxies are jealous of Earth in these heartbreaking, funny, ecstatic, profound, and never boring poems. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e's novella \u003ci\u003eBridge\u003c\/i\u003e received the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction. His first poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eDoor to Door, \u003c\/i\u003e was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the Poets Out Loud Prize, and his second, \u003ci\u003eDragging the Lake\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. He has received an NEA Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize, and he lives with his wife in Oakland, California. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Carnegie-Mellon University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50454218440978,"sku":"9780887486913","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4be28158-7357-49c8-a2a5-879d5c7a4dbf.jpg?v=1729863087","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sonnets-with-two-torches-and-one-cliff-9780887486913","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}