You Kiss by th' Book: New Poems from Shakespeare's Line

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Synopsis
Inspired by Shakespeare, an award-winning poet creates &“smart, surprising and affecting [poetry] . . . Poems that are easy to read and difficult to forget&” (David Scott Kastan, Yale University). In his engaging new collection, National Book Award finalist Gary Soto creates poems that each begin with a line from Shakespeare and then continue in Soto&’s fresh and accessible verse. Drawing on moments from the sonnets, Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night&’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and others, Soto illuminates aspects of the source material while taking his poems in directions of their own, strategically employing the color of &“thee&” and &“thine,&” kings, thieves, and lovers. The results are inspired, by turns meditative, playful, and moving, and consistently fascinating for the conversation they create between the bard&’s time and language and our own here and now. &“I read Gary Soto&’s poems with delight. There&’s no one I know, certainly in this language, who writes like him.&” —Gerald Stern, National Book Award–winning poet &“Soto insists on the possibility of a redemptive power, and he celebrates the heroic, quixotic capacity for survival in human beings and the natural world.&” —Publishers Weekly &“Gary Soto is a consummate storyteller . . . Intelligent, funny, and bitingly honest. He is also a craftsman, a master of metaphor and simile, his language capable of dazzling somersaults.&” —Martin Espada, National Book Award–winning poet &“Shakespeare&’s words are never more alive than when they are being seized upon, twisted, remade and made anew. Gary Soto, a brilliant recycler, has laden his ship with old gold. Himself a brilliant recycler, Shakespeare might well have been pleased.&” —The Norton Shakespeare
Copyright:
2016

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
110 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781452148564
Related ISBNs:
9781452148298
Publisher:
Chronicle Books LLC
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Gary Soto
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
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