You Kiss by th' Book: New Poems from Shakespeare's Line
Author: Gary Soto Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 108 In his engaging new collection, National Book Award finalist Gary Soto creates poems that each begin with a line from Shakespeare and then continue in Soto's fresh and accessible verse. Drawing on moments from the sonnets, Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and others, Soto illuminates aspects of the original while taking the poems in directions of their own, strategically employing the color of 'thee' and...