Jack Veasey - Sonneteria (Paperback)

JACK VEASEY. SONNETERIA: COLLECTED SONNETS AND OTHER POEMS. During his last year of painful illness, poet Jack Veasey left his final poetry manuscript with his long-time publisher, The Poet’s Press. Veasey died in mid-2016, and this 216-page collection includes his collected sonnets (167 of them), a miscellany of other poems, and one Magick ritual. Sonnets, like Scarlatti sonatas, need to be relished a few at a time. Each visit to this vault of sonnets brings the reader new delights, humane observations and sometimes bitter jabs at the everyday, from the vantage of an “outsider.” Veasey has observed that the rigor of the sonnet led him to say unintended things and find, in tight language, truths he did not know he knew.

Published January 2018. ISBN 978-0922558926. 6 x 9 inches, paperback, 214 pages.