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A Living Shakespeare
By Luke William
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"To live on, the poems must bear progeny: they must find readers who make them part of their own hearts and minds and lives." -Donald G. Marshall, from the Foreword
"Luke William invites us to journey with Shakespeare in a parallel sonnet sequence that skillfully weaves together imaginative translations with original riffs on time, beauty, love, death, and poetry itself. A Living Shakespeare is an energizing demonstration of the power of words in the past to continue to inspire words in the present. A pleasure to read."-Steven Mailloux, Loyola Marymount University, emeritus
"A Living Shakespeare is literary intertextuality at its best-a poetic reminder that not only does the past affect the present, but the present, the past. Readers find that before turning each page, they have read Shakespeare's sonnet and William's corresponding sonnet back and forth many times, enjoying the delightful interplay of language and sense between the two poems and discovering both the temporal and the atemporal in the process."-Mary Ann B. Miller, Caldwell University
"William's collection of his Shakespearean sonnets is wonderfully readable as love poetry-but also deeply absorbing as an exhibition of what it can mean to read Shakespeare. Pairing his own sonnets with Shakespeare's text, he impels us to trace the articulation and patterning of his private feelings, conveying his pleasure in finding his poetic self in the poetry of another. The desire of sharing one's feelings, normally difficult, comes to seem natural and lovely."-Victoria Myers, Pepperdine University, emerita
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
166
Release Date:
2025-10-05
Publication Date:
2025-10-05
Publisher:
Lulu.com
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1257437143
ISBN13:
9781257437146
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Weight:
224 g
Height:
148 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
9 cm
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