77 Love Sonnets - Softcover

Keillor, Garrison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143115278 ISBN 13: 9780143115274

Publisher: Prairie Home, 2009

Synopsis

â When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeareâ s Sonnet No. 29, â When in disgrace with fortune and menâ s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast stateâ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon. I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.â â Garrison Keillor

Features music by Rich Dworsky.

Please note content contains adult themes.

About this title

About the Author:

Garrison Keillor, author of nearly a dozen books, is founder and host of the acclaimed radio show A Prairie Home Companion and the daily program The Writer's Almanac. He is also a regular contributor to Time magazine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prairie Home
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0143115278
• ISBN 13: 9780143115274
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 173