The Way the Lines Break: More Deformed Sonnets

by Jan Herman

"These poems are unimpeachable. Clean, thoughtful, imagistic, ironic, clear as water, and make you feel contemplative when you read them." -- Supervert THE WAY THE LINES BREAK continues a cycle of "deformed sonnets" begun in a collection titled FOURTEEN, followed by MORTAL COIL, SMALL THEFTS, and YOUR OBITUARY IS WAITING. The sonnets in those collections have received praise from, among others, the biographer Deirdre Bair ("poems to savor"), the composer William Osborne ("profound, honest, and beautiful"), the playwright Jay Jeff Jones ("spare and simple as Chinese wisdom"), the historian Paul Buhle ("like a message from the avant-garde past—never really past in our crumbling world—but as vivid as ever").

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Published August 31, 2020