Divers

"This book-length sequence of turbulent sonnets follows their speaker's impulses and imagination through the seasons of their composition. These poems are rigorously constrained while also making space for improvisation. They hold to a decasyllabic line while moving in and out of meter. They sing of time, and struggle to understand it. They find words for our moment in the pages of old books. Lines from great writers of the past--including Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Wyatt, and Michael Drayton--echo through Amadon's poems of contemporary menace and wonder. Here we see both the owls lining our fences and the black SUVs rolling down our streets. Out of these conflicts, Amadon's sonnets step up, lift off, and dive into themselves"-- Provided by publisher.