Light Shifts, comprised entirely of sonnets and related essays, reveals her love of the strict, classical form used by the Elizabethans and particularly by William Shakespeare. The sonnet form is also referred to as the English sonnet which adheres to the rhyme scheme of three quatrains of alternating rhymes, end-stopped by a couplet. The rhythm is iambic pentameter throughout the fourteen lines. The quatrains pose or present a theme, questions,...