Reviews
“ How pleasing strange to come across a book of sonnets in the late 20th century. In a time when the form is generally derided as at best nostalgic or at worst politically reactionary, I was anxious to explore this unusual text. Written in a loose version of the 14-line Shakespearean sonnet, Sommer's Shadow Sonnets are less a sequence in the classical sense than fragments of perception that create not a linear narrative but a whole that resists framing As in the best sonnet sequences of the past the autobiographical element in Sommer's work is a major component defining voice and perspective.”