The Endless Bookshelf Adds Sixty Sonnets
by Ernie on 20/03/09 at 11:08 am
Sci-fi guru, bibliophile, bookman, polymath, and all-around extraordinary gentleman Henry Wessells keeps a blog at http://endlessbookshelf.net/
He has kindly added Sixty Sonnets today. Please head over and have a look. You can add photos of your own bookshelves at home to his “endless bookshelf,” which is ever growing. Join in!
There’s a sharp intellect at work (and a keen ear) and I love the range of allusion and citation. I cite two passages that caught my eye and ear and suggest the book’s entwined playfulness and purpose :
from “ AAA Vacation Guide ” :
[ . . .] Let’s get real.
Most places on the map, you must believe,
No one wants to visit, only to leave.and from “ Genealogies ” :
Two generations back my short file stops.
This slender family branch must have once led
To trunk if not root. What strange folk were we?
Gangsters and seamstresses, what bizarre links,
Smiths and sylphs, deacons and drunks, kings and finks.
