The Gardening Fires: Sonnets and Fragments

By Jerome Luc Martin

The Gardening Fires is J r me Luc Martin's first collection of poems -- a sonnet sequence set among the pines and inlets of the Mediterranean coast.

Each sonnet is coupled with a fragment that simultaneously extends and deconstructs the original poem's language, theme, and music. These pairs of poems, which balance formal rigour with cascading incompleteness, are rooted in a tradition reaching from Lowell back to Petrarch, and deal the loss of love and its haunting persistence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904130666
• ISBN13: 9781904130666
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Waywiser Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.9" x 7.6"