RaveColumbia JournalSeuss’s sonnets fit few of the conventions of the traditional form, yet maintain all of its ethos. At its most basic, the sonnet is a love poem and that is just what Seuss has created here ... One of the innumerable joys of this book is that Seuss always knows exactly how she maneuvers her reader. Her writing is endlessly self-aware ... frank: sonnets did not break my heart, though it reminded me my heart was already broken. The book held my hand during this realization and, like children playing with their bodies for the first time, opened itself to reveal its own brokenness.
