Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets

by William Baer (Editor)

The Sonnet is one of the distinguishing cultural markers of western civilization. Throughout our literary past, the sonnet has been used by our greatest poets--from Petrarch and Shakespeare to Borges and Auden. Now, in the twenty-first century, after a period of general dismissal in the latter decades of the twentieth century, the sonnet is in the midst of an extraordinary revival and has once again returned to the center of the literary landscape. 150 Contemporary Sonnets is a unique collection which showcases the dazzling craft, power, variety, and beauty of the sonnet's recent resurgence by presenting the work of a wide range of authors, including many of our most revered living poets.

Genres: Poetry

176 pages, Hardcover

First published March 14, 2005

About the author

William Baer, a recent Guggenheim fellow, is the award-winning author of twenty-five books including New Jersey Noir; Times Square and Other Stories; One-and-Twenty Tales; Companion; The Ballad Rode into Town; Formal Salutations: New & Selected Poems; Classic American Films; and The Unfortunates (recipient of the T.S. Eliot Award). A former Fulbright in Portugal, he’s also received the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award and a Creative Writing Fellowship in fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Reviews

[Jessica Piazza · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is what people who don't have a real book yet get happy about. A sonnet in an anthology. Ah well.

[Jeff Holt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent contemporary collection of sonnets.