None So Strange As Self

Can a seemingly anachronistic literary form—the sonnet—resonate with today's reader, as the subtitle "More Sonnets for Our Time" suggests?

To live up to its name, the sixty sonnets in None So Strange As Self must cover a wide range of topics, the immediate and the timeless: politics, wealth disparity, environmental degradation, species extinction, racism, greed, sex, death, grief, aging, etc. and, of course, love and loss. And, to be true to the sonnet form, each sonnet must capture the essence of its assigned topic in fourteen lines of ten syllables each. Further, the sonnet must touch both the reader's heart and mind. No mean task for a centuries-old poetic form firmly fixed in love's literary embrace.