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What Fool Would Challenge Shakespeare?

Going Toe to Toe with the Champion Sonneteer

Trafford Publishing

Contents

Dedication, ix, 
Preface, xi, 
A Raft of Similes Comes Into Dock, 1, 
Like the Rain When It Rains, 2, 
The Grist of Care, 3, 
As I Strain to Hold My Course, 4, 
Ah ... Nature!, 5, 
The Compost Pile, 6, 
Threats of Record Wetness, 7, 
Impossibly I Advance, 8, 
Presumption Denied, 9, 
On the Wet Stuff Vast, 10, 
The Inside Dope, 11, 
Art Derailed, 12, 
Escape by Time Machine, 13, 
The Song of Longing, 14, 
Beautiful Women, 15, 
The Evolved Superlative, 16, 
Were There No Suffering, 17, 
The Door You Left Ajar, 18, 
To Fly the Coop, 19, 
The Gramophone's Key, 20, 
Our Delicate Balance, 21, 
Chris Hedges: What He Wrote, 22, 
A Trackless Minefield, 23, 
A Fun Invention, 24, 
Moonlighted Madness, 25, 
Colossal Error, 26, 
It's a Wrap, 27, 
What Might Ignite a Fire, 28, 
How Infinite As Light, 29, 
To Compliment a Lovely Woman, 30, 
A Perfectly Clownish Shtick, 31, 
The Turf of Esthetes, 32, 
The Terrible Reckoning to Come, 33, 
Keats' Ode to a Nightingale, 34, 
To Read His Own Words, 35, 
Death As a Gorgeous Act, 36, 
Your GPS, 37, 
With Faith Feeble in Zeal, 38, 
That I Care So Bloody Much, 39, 
Modernizing, 40, 
Love Not Her Cup of Tea, 41, 
Never Not, 42, 
Splendor Found in Books, 43, 
Reality, 44, 
Sculpting What's Real, 45, 
Sky-Romp, 46, 
Big As All Outdoors, 47, 
The Hoax, 48, 
This So-Called Miracle, 49, 
Woman, Kind, 50, 
This Dark Passage One Would Scarcely Choose, 51, 
The Task Assigned, 52, 
The Source From Whence I've Sprung, 53, 
Thought of the Grave, 54, 
What You Already Know, 55, 
In Sudden Thrall, 56, 
Heart on Sleeve, 57, 
Love Can Be a Judas, 58, 
The Topmost Tourist Trap City, 59, 
The Muse Confronted, 60, 
Alchemy Transmuting Gold, 61, 
Atop This Steeple, 62, 
The Rescue, 63, 
Eavesdroppers Welcome, 64, 
Why No Other Poem in Any Book, 65, 
An Authentic Lover, 66, 
The Boon of Faith, 67, 
His Craft Pursuing, 68, 
On Hearing a Music Pure, 69, 
The Carnivore's Undoing, 70, 
Cachinnation, 71, 
Caught Off Guard, 72, 
Solace Comprehended, 73, 
The Joyful Noise of the Divine, 74, 
Improving on Nature, 75, 
By Knowledge Unsullied, 76, 
Him They Called Papa, 77, 
A Tale to Rip the Veil, 78, 
Scofflaws of Nature, 79, 
Coming Clean, 80, 
Pleasure's Perks, 81, 
A Tome So Finely Writ, 82, 
A Lesson Learned, 83, 
Liesl Eleyn, 84, 
Unemployment Check, 85, 
The Shivering Sense, 86, 
Righting the Perspective, 87, 
The Use and Value of a Small Appliance, 88, 
Elegies, 89, 
Beyond Thumbscrews, 90, 
My Muse Unfeeling, 91, 
Limitations Human, 92, 
Sarah, 93, 
Eavesdroppers Welcome, 94, 
The Unknown Soldier, 95, 
The Tunnel Vision of Love, 96, 
To Dwell Amongst the Few, 97, 
By Ecstasy Undone, 98, 
The Reliable Confrere, 99, 
Appendix One: The Rainbow Benediction, 103, 
Appendix Two: The Inexhaustible Subject, 114, 
Appendix Three: The Mightiest Monosyllable, 125, 
Appendix Four: Who We Are, 131, 
Appendix Five: Au Contraire, Love, 149, 
Appendix Six: A Lantern One Might Shine on Literature, 159,