Sonnets on the Common Man: New Hampshire Verse, by David B. Lentz
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Sonnets on the Common Man: New Hampshire Verse, by David B. Lentz
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These sonnets sing about a love of the landscape of New Hampshire and the people who rejoice in common in its sense of place. At times, this earthly paradise is daunting, formidable and even threatening. Yet the skiing is divine. The mountains are sublime. The purity of the lakes is pristine. The small towns charm. The seacoast, though brief, connects to the vast Atlantic. This modest poetic book refreshes the sonnet itself with songs and beautiful full-color images of landscapes inspired by the land and people who love New Hampshire. "A delight to read. The poetry herein evokes images not only of New Hampshire, but of where I call home. Here is a celebration of nature and the common man, the lakes and towns, the streams and villages, the people." - Goodreads "Elegant meditations." - Terry Richard Bazes, Novelist, Author of "Goldsmith's Return" "His poetry is meant to be read aloud, savored and reread." - Virginia Marciano "An existential, romantic world of sentience." - John H. Sibley, Author of "Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground Artist""Lentz succeeds in bringing out the emotions associated with these places and times, letting the reader drench in the beauty, the loneliness, the joy." - Leonard Seet, Novelist and Author of "The Spiritual Life" "Expressed so clearly, the tender feelings of his sonnets are eternal." - Krishna Bhatt, Novelist and Author of "The Royal Enigma""The use of a seven-beat line, which blends the beat of the classic ballad to the rhythms of the sonnet, is a nice innovation." - Christopher Bernard, Poet and Author of "In the American Night"
Sonnets on the Common Man: New Hampshire Verse, by David B. Lentz- Amazon Sales Rank: #2766677 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .31" w x 6.00" l, .57 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 132 pages
Review "Enraptured. Masterful writing. Timeless." -- Roxana Bowgen, Author of "Agapanthus Rising""One hears in the sonnets the sensibility of a contemporary avatar of Wallace Stevens. Lentz helps us find true north in ourselves. This is the most important connection art can make." - Eric Sonnenschein, Author of "Ad Nomad""The language in 'Sonnets' is by turns playful and profound, and the reader is continually impressed with both." - Chuck Crabbe, Author of "As a Thief in the Night""These are the bread and water of life." - Bruce McLaren, Author of "The Plain of Dead Cities""These poems become something akin to beacons of hope." -- Gary Anderson, Novelist and Author of "Best of All Possible Worlds"
From the Author Ambitiously, I seek to refresh the ancient sonnet form with little songs of love inspired by the landscape and common people who love New Hampshire. These sonnets praise the everyday heroism of the common man by which in a universal sense I intend to include each gender in this lovely, little corner of humanity. The simple language of these sonnets stays true to the original aspirations of the poetic form in transparency and resonance. I seek to connect you to the tender beauty of the land and the people living in New Hampshire. Earnestly, I invite you to a sentimental journey as if we were touring together at our leisure and sharing views from granite summits of the rich meaning that the landscape invokes all around us. We share common ground with those whom we love and the landscape becomes sacred because they inhabit it. Are these illuminations of life, invoked by a common sense of place, not your joy and even your legacy to those who follow? Among you, who are mindful, isn't the conspiracy of the universe to the success of your process of enlightenment simply the way that life is meant to unfold? We share in common the human condition and generously may have been blessed to experience the wilderness with its profound beauty and the serenity of elusive solitude. The journey, that we disclose, may enrich us all our lives. May these ragged and humble sonnets serve to connect us in our common ground.
From the Inside Flap The Resonance of Honeyed SummerElizabethan Sonnet Sequence abab, cdcd, efef, ggSynchronous in honeyed summer sings a choir of tremulous birch leaves, A sweet breeze surges south from the mountains to cool down the farm. To a white picket fence, among the honeybees, a steadfast garden cleaves, After blind disregard by a town plow, mended again from winter harm. A sensual scent of new mown meadow, the clash of croquet mallet to ball, A ricochet sings a tin din of two wickets and a knock into a winning stake. By the barn, night owls howl, by day gleeful wee hummingbirds enthrall. The mirth of dipping children as wakes of droning motorboats lap a lake. Bluebirds have woven a love nest in a stilted, rough-hewn, wooden house. By a stonewall wild berries grow swollen from green to a misty blue hue. As we ride bikes beside a hayfield, we rouse the flight of a russet grouse. At dawn a doe and fawn cross our lawn leaving hoof prints upon the dew. In long lemonade days, rocking and sipping on the porch, in our defense, We're in awe of honeyed summertime and the harmony of its resonance. + + +
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. beautifully enhanced by artistic photographs By Patricia Halloff In his lovely little book of sonnets extolling the common man, David Lentz sings a paean to the beauty of New Hampshire's landscape and the satisfaction to be found in ordinary pleasures. Over 50 classical and Lentzian sonnets, beautifully enhanced by artistic photographs, scrupulously adhere to form, thanks to Lentz' ability to successfully relate conventional elements to the total form of each individual poem. Presented in sections--Common Ground, The Seasons, Living in the Sticks, Villages, Northern Enlightenment, Lakes and Bays, and White Mountains--the sonnets take readers on a virtual tour of place and simple, often prosaic experiences, a visit in imagination which produces an appetite for booking a flight so one may savor New Hampshire's ambience for oneself. This book honors the ordinary man and the beauty inherent in commonplace scenes and human emotions.Go with Lentz to his American Eden. Ice skate with him in moonlight on a cold, clear winter night. Explore an ancient barn and imagine its story. Go fishing with the poet's father. Holding your breath, ski perilous Tuckerman's Ravine--you're Hans Castorp on a magic mountain. Accept the onus of raking leaves while chill winds bully you. Sigh over the nuisance of doing drudgerous chores. There is so much quiet humor in many of these sonnets. Chuckle over the metaphor of black flies as the "tiny bicuspids" plaguing mankind and slap ubiquitous mosquitoes "whining in the dead of blessed night." Chuckle some more over the stones of a stone wall being referred to as "former fellows of the underground."Still, nothing is all sweetness and light--even in New Hampshire. There are snakes in Lentz' eden. A "Disarming Walk into Wilderness" takes us where the gunfire of hunters who "find amusement in shooting to kill humble creatures." breaches "the quiet of paradise". In "Pasquaney" Lentz accompanies Thoreau through once pristine waters which today "wind fans and pipe lines salivate to invade". And at "Crawford Notch" an abandoned ski train and trestle mar the Arcadian wilderness. "The Old Homestead" laments perennial wars. In the title poem "The Common Man", questioning what "a reticent God" could have been thinking to combine so many disparate souls unable to really know or understand one another, Lentz shakes his head over our separateness from one another. The eternal question: "Is Everyman fated as an island unto himself 'til his last bright day goes by?" ends the sonnet.Sonnets on a Common Man is a fine collection teeming with intelligent thought expressed in wonderfully poetic language. I enjoyed reading it and recommend it highly.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. a beautiful book length sequence By Corey Mesler Who writes sonnet sequences these days? Who could? David Lentz could and has, a beautiful book length sequence, a hymn to his home state of New Hampshire, in which he manages to use sense of place as a metaphor for an entire existence, an entire way of life, and for capital L, Life. The reason the book succeeds on such a high level is Lentz’s lyricism and his wry humor and his grounding in simple things: moonlight, trees, ice, homestead, lakes and mountains. Here is a poet who’s been paying attention and his eye is evident on every page. He sees the magic under the everyday, which is a gift, but an even finer one is his ability to pass his sight and insight on to his readers. In Sonnets on the Common Man there are poems of stillness, poems of grace, poems of “Whirling dervishes, spinning, gliding, leaping in sprightly pirouettes.” And, perhaps most powerful, the poem of the titular ‘common man,’ of whom Lentz says, “What was a reticent God thinking and what in the world could be his plan,/To cast us together like this, bewildered and baffled, in such a vexing daze?” What does it all add up to? A love of the deep mystery of living, of nature, of Man, and an ability to limn it in verse as musical as birds or brooks. Lentz is a writer of rare acuity and rarer courage. I’d follow him anywhere.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. and found a kind of delight in the "accent" By bandwa this book of sonnets is a pleasure to read. lentz offers sonnets written in a multitude of sonnet formats, all of them evoking images pleasing to the ear and eye...and nose, from the frozen pond, to the wood stove, to the no-see-um black flies, fishing with father, the poet donald hall, raking leaves or snowbound. called new hampshire verse, but this reader, living in a like-kind exchange of land several hundred miles to the west in michigan, this reader saw images of home, images of my past...and found a kind of delight in the "accent"...not talking speech...or, speech in a sense...but accent in the manner people there "see" things much as we "see" things, albeit...with that local color...so much is the same. too, there's some great photos in the collection...photos that conjure paintings. the photos look like paintings. heh! that's a twist, hey?...nice how that was done. old barns, small towns, a country store...there's a lot of flavor here. worth the taste. check it out.
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