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Notes on the sonnets

Kennard, Luke2021
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Luke Kennard recasts Shakespeare's 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party. A physicist explains dark matter in the kitchen. A crying man is consoled by a Sigmund Freud action figure. An out-of-hours doctor sells phials of dark red liquid from a briefcase. Someone takes out a guitar. Wry, insolent and self-eviscerating, 'Notes on the Sonnets' riddles the Bard with the anxieties of the modern age, bringing Kennard's affectionate critique to subjects as various as love, marriage, God, metaphysics and a sad horse.
Main title:
Notes on the sonnets / Luke Kennard.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Penned in the Margins, 2021.
Collation:
212 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781908058812 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1963373
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