RaveRumpusOne of my first thoughts, when I began reading frank: sonnets and experienced the crash and powerful undertow of Seuss’s lines, is that readers of poetry are sure to soon see imitations of Seuss’s sonnets abounding in literary journals and online—the experience of reading frank: sonnets feels very close to writing; it is a heady, intoxicating experience. Seuss understands the labor of a sonnet’s particular space ... Like a mid-air dancer, Seuss makes the leap look easy ... Seuss transforms what we think of as the sonnet’s landscape ... Part of the joy of reading frank: sonnets is the incredible variety of grammar and form ... The richly historied form of the sonnet is a powerhouse for holding the past ... frank: sonnets is a tour de force and essential reading.
