Holy Sonnets to Orpheus and Other Poems
Regular price
$18.00
Author: David Hadbawnik
Publisher: Delete Press (2018)
Humor & history with the sharpest of edges—David Hadbawnik's Holy Sonnets to Orpheus and Other Poems makes selvages where the languages of myth & the literary canon meet the languages of social media, sports, lovers’ abbreviations, & other contemporary vernaculars.
There is no quick contact line between the sacred and profane, nor are the delicate threads of those outlooks frayed in David Hadbawnik’s poetic palimpsests, Holy Sonnets to Orpheus and Other Poems. The vocalic outreach to antiquity, a lyric channeling of the English Renaissance, and the exuberant undertones of Romance are performed in masquerades of contemporary utterances of the now.