100 Love Sonnets - Softcover

Maulucci, Anthony S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 151906408X ISBN 13: 9781519064080

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

"Maulucci has taken the sonnet forward into the 21st century and made it relevant again." -- George Michael Erickson, literary historian Out of the crucible of divorce comes a book about love . . . In this exciting collection of lyrical, sensual, and elegant poems, A. S. Maulucci offers romantic readers a fresh take on the sonnet, the time-honored and most elevated form for expressing the mysterious emotion we call love. Two poets have created sonnets which have proved a delight and an inspiration to many authors. The great Italian Renaissance scholar Francesco Petrarca (1304—1374) wrote several hundred love poems to a woman named Laura and published them in a collection called Canzoniere (“Songbook”). These sonnets seem very modern — they focus on the psychology of the lover — and they have had a profound influence on other poets throughout Europe. Similarly, the sonnets of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904—1973), author of Cien Sonetos de Amor, are filled with sensual imagery, and they are still read and loved around the world. The work of both of these poets became the models for Maulucci’s own sonnets. He too wrote most of them for one extraordinary woman.

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About the Author:

A. S. Maulucci is the award-winning author of four works of fiction and three poetry chapbooks published by Lorenzo Press, a small press he founded in 1995 (www.lorenzopress.com). His latest novel is Dear Dante, a story about love, murder and mysticism set in Hartford and Tuscany. After living in Boston, Montreal, Toronto, and New York City, Maulucci returned to his native Connecticut to write and teach. He holds an MA from Wesleyan University and was a professor of English and creative writing at various colleges for over 15 years. In 1989 he started the popular Green Tiger Writers Workshop, which holds classes every summer in Old Saybrook, CT. Maulucci is also an artist. He paints portraits and figures in rich and distinctive colors, and exhibits his work in galleries. Visit www.anthonymaulucci.com for samples of his fiction and art work. He is the proud father of a daughter and two sons.

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