Title: Plutonic Sonnets
Description: A modern sonnet cycle inspired by Pluto's demotion, <em>Plutonic Sonnets</em> comprises 165 interrelated poems around and about the discovery and naming of the planets and the elements. Mostly in the beautiful and versatile Shakespearean style, the sonnets are full of history, myth, science, and romance. Readers say "an epic sonnet cycle"; "I couldn't put it down!"; "The one book you want on that desert isle"!
Subjects: contemporary sonnet cycles, contemporary sonnet sequences, contemporary sonnet series, English sonnet cycles, English sonnet sequences, English sonnet series, epic sonnet cycles, epic sonnet sequences, epic sonnet series, long sonnet cycles, long sonnet sequences, long sonnet series, major sonnet cycles, major sonnet sequences, major sonnet series, modern sonnet cycles, modern sonnet sequences, modern sonnet series, Shakespearean sonnet cycles, Shakespearean sonnet sequences, Shakespearean sonnet series, sonnets, sonnet cycles, sonnet sequences, sonnet series, twenty-first century sonnet cycles, twenty-first century sonnet sequences, twenty-first century sonnet series, 21st century sonnet cycles, 21st century sonnet sequences, 21st century sonnet series
Places: Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona
People: Pluto (the god, the planet, even Mickey Mouse's pet!), Percival Lowell, astronomers, chemists, physicists
Time periods: 500 BCE-present