Imaginary Sonnets

by Daniel Galef

In Daniel Galef’s Imaginary Sonnets, 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. Imaginary Sonnets entertains and entrances with every turn of the page.

84 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 14, 2023

Reviews

[Zorgladon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Witty, fun, and thoughtful - a brilliant collection!

[sch]

Mar 2025. Author of a guest column for "Poems Ancient and Modern."