SIXTY SONNETS

by Ernest Hilbert

$25 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2009. First Edition. First edition. 93 pp. Signed by the poet, and with his distinctive chop in blue ink. The poet's first book preceded by a broadside a collection of sonnets, mostly iambic, mostly in an abcabcdefdefgg rhyme scheme. Like Berryman before him he modernizes the sonnet, not by turning it into free verse, but rather with fresh subjects, wording and

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