Work Sonnets

by Daniel Wolff

Poetry. "The sky explodes. But the man who supposes / War supposes wrong. No war. A cloud of roses / drifts, pinkly, above the timed and tremendous booms. / Nobody cowers in shuttered rooms. // We got the day off. Now, we take the night off- / and find burns and bruises unfurling beneath the soft / skin of the sky" (from "Work Sonnets"). Some of the poems in this chapbook have appeared in The Agni Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Grand Street, The Paris Review, and Shenandoah.

Genres: Poetry

32 pages, Paperback

First published February 6, 2002

About the author

Grammy-nominated author Daniel Wolff's latest book is "Grown-up Anger: Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913." His previous books include "The Names of Birds," "The Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back," "How Lincoln Learned to Read,""4th of July/Asbury Park" and "You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke.""