77 Love Sonnets

Name: 77 Love Sonnets
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Garrison Keillor
ISBN: 9781598877724

Author: Garrison Keillor

Narrator: Garrison Keillor

Unabridged: 1 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 06/17/2009

Categories: Fiction, Poetry, American Poetry

Synopsis

“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon. I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.”—Garrison Keillor

Features music by Rich Dworsky.

Please note content contains adult themes.

About Garrison Keillor

As the host of A Prairie Home Companion for over forty years, Garrison Keillor has captivated millions of listeners with his weekly News from Lake Wobegon monologues. Keillor has been honored with Grammy, ACE, and George Foster Peabody awards, the National Humanities Medal, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His many books include Lake Wobegon Days, The Book of Guys, Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance, Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny, and The Keillor Reader. He is the host of the daily program The Writer's Almanac and the editor of several anthologies of poetry. A Prairie Home Companion is heard on hundreds of public radio stations, as well as America One, the Armed Forces Networks, Sirius Satellite Radio, and via a live audio webcast. When not touring, he resides in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jordan

Most of them are truly beautiful, many of them will be with me forever. Some of them are downright raunchy, which wouldn't make me as uncomfortable if it were anyone other than Garrison Keillor. I must remind myself that I will someday be that old too.......more

Goodreads review by Jamie

Ah, how I love this book. He describes such simple moments with a depth of emotion. I first discovered this book 4 years ago when I couldn't give it up, so I cancelled my Valentine's day date. It has become a welcomed tradition, to read this lovely book every Valentine's Day. Thank you, Garrison Kei......more

Goodreads review by Susan

A Wide-Ranging Sonnet Sequence A sonnet sequence is not just a collection of sonnets. It is the portrait of a mind in motion over a period of time, usually unified by a central theme. The sonnets in a sequence tend to address that theme from a variety of perspectives, with widely different tones and......more

Goodreads review by Kelly

This post was originally posted by me over at Guys Lit Wire. If you've seen A Prairie Home Companion on PBS, or the movie of the same name starring Meryl Streep, or if you listen to National Public Radio (NPR) either voluntarily or because your folks have it on in the car, you might have some idea wh......more