{"product_id":"the-sonnetarium-9781599541266","title":"The Sonnetarium","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE FOREWORD BLUES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWesli Court said I should write a book, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bunch of blues--enough to fill a book, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd he'd design the cover. I said, \"Look, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you'll write half of them, then I will choose\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA ball-point pen, a felt-tip--I will choose\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo join you in a modicum of blues.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that's the reason, Reader, we are here--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou, Wes and me--we three assembled here\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong these turning leaves yellow and sere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe hope you'll think the words we write are fine, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur writing bold and dark, but our wordage fine . . ., \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt least we hope you'll like the cover design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnvoy Epilogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGo, little book of sorrows, cares and woes, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Wesli's gone. Where? Only goodness knows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTurco, Lewis:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Lewis Putnam Turco is a prolific author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He is the founder of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, and the creative writing program at the State University of New York College at Oswego. Turco's first book of criticism, \u003cem\u003eVisions and Revisions of American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America, and his A BOOK OF FEARS: POEMS, with Italian translations by Joseph Alessia, won the first annual Bordighera Poetry Prize. He is also the author of three additional titles published by Bordighera Press: SHAKING THE FAMILY TREE: A REMEMBRANCE (1998), LA FAMIGLIA: THE FAMILY (2009), and THE HERO ENKIDU (2015). Turco received the John Ciardi Award for lifetime achievement in poetry.","brand":"Bordighera Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50421294891282,"sku":"9781599541266","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8190cd58-2d2a-4a19-a728-b0829a29ff76.jpg?v=1729504866","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-sonnetarium-9781599541266","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}