December 30, 2003

The Radiation Sonnets, Jane Yolen

Subtitle: For my love, in sickness and health.

Formality makes it easier to talk about some things. That is, I think, the strength of this book. The sonnets were written in the course of her husband's radiotherapy, mostly speaking to him.

A little distance, and it occurs to me that I can think of great sonnet sequences of courtship (successful and unsuccessful) and some on ending a relationship, but no others from inside a happy marriage.

ISBN: 1-56512-402-2

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