AUTUMN SONNETS

AUTUMN SONNETS
By Tom Eagan

AUTUMN SONNETS - A chapbook for unrequited lovers. "Tom Eagan's Autumn Sonnets is a superbly presented compendium of 108 love sonnets with a special emphasis on the pain of unrequited love and the necessity for recovery without abandonment of this basic human condition that has, at one time or another, afflicted or affected us all." -- Wisconsin Bookwatch, February, 2002.

"Autumn Sonnets is the perfect antidote to a 'world full of so many cares and worries.' (See sonnet #65) A book to savor, it fills the heart with that precious commodity called hope."
-- Kate Grilley, author of Death Dances to a Reggae Beat.

"These witty sonnets strike an informal, unpretentious tone that is downright endearing. Although Eagan is familiar with the entire gamut of Western literature ("Your beauty and wisdom would have thrown/Artemis, Athena, and Aphrodite off their game,/and Greek mythology just wouldn't be the same!"), he also uses a lot of modern imagery-and aside from demonstrating poetic clarity, he proves that a poet can be just plain fun to read."
- Bruce Feld, author of Cleopatra in the Night
and other poems.

"It's refreshing, in an age of poetry either drained of blood by logy academics or cranked out in a boozy haze by hacks who don't know the meaning of 'rewrite,' to find this volume of passionate, yet disciplined writing. Highly recommended for any member of that rare species, the Hopeful Romantic."
- Robert L. Penick, Editor, Chance Magazine

"If we could capture time in a bottle. Re-live our past. Undo our mistakes. If the heart and mind were one. If we were yet young. If only . . . Tom's work is full of human emotion. Nostalgia, mirth, sadness, pain, hope and, of course, foolishness. Well done!"
- Bill Hartlage, Fishing fool and critic

"Classic!"
- Robert J. Stauble, Attorney

" I think I know why the mattress of the horney Brother Tobias needed to be hosed and aired out. A match would have spared the Brothers, and us, 101 pages of Brother T's own version of Perpetual Suffering."
- Dick McCracken, bon vivant

"Witty, charming and amusing!"
- Joel Selker, Deputy Clerk

"When I gaze upon it, the sonnet,
the eras of bards come to mind.
There's Shakespeare enshrined
and others who shine. . . .
Here's a mention of those, so divine:
Shelly and Keats and earlier Dunne,
Herrick, Lovelace, and Suckling
were witty and fun. And now
in the present, oh joy! And oh bliss!
After many long years, we can add
to the list . . . . the name of Tom Eagan.
His "Autumn Sonnets" number 108.
A pleasure to read them. They really are great.
A bard for the new millennium, . . . .thanks, fate!"
- R. J. Atkinson, N.Y. actor and author

"An eccentric and eclectic new genre in the field of poetry has been ordained. Eagan is the best living writer to reflect the romanticism vibrantly alive in the lost generations of Kerouac and Ginsberg. A true wit."
- E. H. Tingle, Attorney at Law

"Tom Eagan may call himself 'the hackmeister of the Midwest,' but he has proven himself wrong in AUTUMN SONNETS."
- Christian Garrison,
author of the Ace Chaney novels
Snake Doctor and Paragon Man

"No one who has loved can fail to keenly appreciate this tale of love as smooth as prose, as touching and humorous and painful as are all such adventures of the heart!"
- Mary Krause, Shakespearean actress

"Sonnets #20, #68 and #73 expose the heart for everything it can be."
- Roy Skaggs, III, flanuer

"If Shakespeare was the Bard, then Eagan must be the Card."
- Séan Doyle, Clerk's Literary Review

"Petrarch invented the sonnet; Shakespeare perfected the sonnet; Eagan has made the sonnet extinct."
- Jules Tasca, playwright, author of "Deus-X," "Romeo and Juliet are Lovers." and so much more.

"What an appetite for experience, and what variety of tone, form and mood! Some of the individual lines and images are solidly memorable and strong. . ."
- Phil O'Mara, English Professor, Bridgewater College

AUTUMN SONNETS - 120 pp. ($14.95 postpaid) ISBN 0-9661588-6-5
50% discount available to bookstores / libraries.

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