I Ask This Favor, as Any Person Might

By Harvey Lillywhite

I Ask This Favor, as Any Person Might is a radiant, unguarded collection of syllabic sonnets that marries spiritual inquiry with the wreckage and wonder of aging, grief, and everyday astonishment. Harvey Lillywhite's d casyllabic lines speak out across open graffiti walls-tight, urgent, improvisational-on which thought, confession, and metaphysics tag their luminous signatures. These poems push against the old Imagist injunction to pack ideas into "things"; here, ideas stride openly, companioned by image rather than constrained by it. The result is a deeply human voice both vulnerable and playful, capable of leaping from cosmology to childhood trauma, from quantum entanglement to kitchen-table sorrow, without losing its emotional center. What emerges is a long prayer stitched from humor and bewilderment, philosophical candor, and a stubborn tenderness toward the world. These sonnets feel like final testaments and fresh beginnings at once-torii gates between the broken and the holy, the fleeting and the eternal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GDFCCZ2Q
• ISBN13: 9798241977830
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"