Poetry. "The poems shimmering in this volume represent an intense and vertiginous new beginning of the sonnet, erupting from the site of 'end words.' Tim Wood's re-embarkations are thrilling. I hesitate to impose metaphors on a work of art that stands on its own terms, but something related to time travel might turn attention in the right direction. Yet again, knowing that the poems originate with Shakespeare's sonnets simply doesn't prepare one for reading them, or at least only to the degree that wearing fustian might prepare one for mardi gras on Mars. These poems are wild and beautiful. They are something new in sonnetry!"—Lyn Hejinian.

Author City: SOUTHOLD, NY USA

Tim Wood has published poems in various magazines and writes about American epic poetry, Herman Melville's Clarel and Louis Zukofsky's “A” in particular. He is co-editor of The Hip Hop Reader (Longman, 2007) and is an assistant professor of English at SUNY Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York.