You Kiss by Th' Book: New Poems from Shakespeare's Line (Gary Soto Poems, Poems for Shakespeare Fans)

Author/Contributor(s):	Soto, Gary
Publisher:	Chronicle Books
Date:	03/22/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In his engaging new collection, National Book Award finalist Gary Soto creates poems that each begin with a line from Shakespeare and then continue in Soto's fresh and accessible verse. Drawing on moments from the sonnets, Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and others, Soto illuminates aspects of the source material while taking his poems in directions of their own, strategically employing the color of thee and thine, kings, thieves, and lovers. The results are inspired, by turns meditative, playful, and moving, and consistently fascinating for the conversation they create between the Bard's time and language and our own here and now.