{"product_id":"joyce-is-not-here-andrew-barker-9798728740605","title":"Joyce is Not Here: 101 Modern Shakespearean Sonnets - Book One","description":"\u003cp\u003eNamed after the bar in Hong Kong where most of these poems were first performed, \u003ci\u003eJoyce is Not Here\u003c\/i\u003e is Andrew Barker's first collection of Modern Sonnets. Among the cast of characters within we hear from the Sea Shepherd, the Worn-out Private Tutor, the Newsworthy Activist, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Rumpelstiltskin, Beatrice Carbone from \u003ci\u003eA View from the Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e, Tony Blair contemplating accusations of war crimes, and even an eight-year old Shakespeare, primed with ambition. In the beat and rhyme of the sixteenth century love song, \u003ci\u003eJoyce is Not Here: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e101 Modern Shakespearean Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e is a revolution, not in form, but in content. As the essay on poetry included in this collection says: \"If you know how to use it, the sonnet form will do a lot of work for you.\" Upon these pages sonnets deal with such diverse matters as hearing of Gore Vidal's death, watching The Damned in a wine bar in Hong Kong, the dangers of Donald Trump being successfully ridiculed on Saturday Night Live, on first looking into Keats' poem \u003ci\u003eOn First Looking into Chapman's Homer\u003c\/i\u003e in the room where Keats died, reactions to observing Kevin Spacey as Richard the Third, or Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski, or to Muhammad Ali defeating George Foreman in Kinshasa. Sonnets are written as dramatic monologues of characters from the television drama series \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e, from the works of Homer, Neil Gaiman, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Charles Dickens and Dai Sijie, and as the poet himself, cautiously contemplating the world around him. Varied and moving, \u003ci\u003eJoyce is Not Here\u003c\/i\u003e shows us the remarkable scope of the modern-day sonnet, it is a celebration of what can be done with the sonnet now. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Barker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8728740602\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798728740605\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/05\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.44d","brand":"Andrew Barker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43982088896767,"sku":"9798728740605","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_723dc09e-b6dd-4cad-b827-183a38e2d963.jpg?v=1683259163","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/joyce-is-not-here-andrew-barker-9798728740605","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}