Jailbreaks
Subtitle: 99 Canadian Sonnets
By: edited by Zachariah Wells.
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Emeryville, ON
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781897231449
Subjects: Sonnets, Canadian (English).
Genres: Poems
Description: In 1910 Lawrence J. Burpee published an anthology of 100 Canadian Sonnets. Poet and critic Zachariah Wells figured it was high time for an update on that dusty tome. In Jailbreaks, Wells has gathered 99 of his favourite sonnets written by Canadians, from the 19th Century to the present day. Jailbreaks does much to question the standard assumption that the best Canadian poetry is written in free verse, while showcasing the enormous versatility of the sonnet and of the poets who use it as a vessel for their thoughts and feelings. Jailbreaks just might change the way we think about Canadian poetry.