Don Washburn - In the Eye of the Red-Tailed Hawk (Paperback)

DON WASHBURN. IN THE EYE OF THE RED-TAILED HAWK. Love after 70? How about love, betrayal and the transcendent pursuit of yet another "Dark Lady" in literature? Washburn's sonnets, composed with amazing grace and fluency as a diary during his doomed romance, combines utterly modern language and a wry self-awareness with a classical ease. The reader is propelled into this taut narrative, nearly forgetting the formal rules and boundaries of the sonnet.

The poet's engagement with Sufi mysticism adds a special grace to the denouement of loss and abandonment. We are proud to publish this new landmark in the genre of the sonnet-cycle.

Published July 2009. ISBN 978-0922558407. 80 pages, paperback.