Sonnets for Sinners: Everything One Needs to Know About Illicit Love by John Wareham
A Pulitzer Poetry Nominee to Define the Decade. A garland of forty-ninelife-changing sonnets, from classic to avante garde, eachwith a companion page of insight that illumines the secret emotionallives of illicit lovers.Hidden meanings and insights are unveiled bybestselling writer, poet andpsychologistJohn Wareham, who also distills and dissects sonnets from the infamous Charles and Camilla cell phone conversation, lines from Princess Diana, thetext messages that trapped Tiger Woods, andtranscripts from the John and Elizabeth Edwards media meltdown. To absorb this literary gem isto know why the New YorkTimes observed, John Wareham has the cool, cleareyes of a seeker of wisdom and truth. Editorial Reviews Review This tiny tome filled with passion, desire andcarnal lust packs quite a punch.Famous and contemporary love triangles are seen from all sides, andafter each sonnet, Wareham gives a profound and piercing summary. Theperfect gift for that special person in your life. Or buy it for yourself and enjoy each deliciously tempting page.-Ambush Magazine Just in time for Valentine's Day, John Warehamfound poetry in the lines and lies of world-class cheaters, like Tiger Woods, former sen. John Edwards and Prince Charles,and in laments of spurned spouses like Elizabeth Edwards, Princess Diana, and Jenny Sanford, the wife of South Carolina's dignity-challenged Gov Mark Sanford. -- NY Daily News Happily destined, like Milton's Paradise Lost, to find its readers. - Don Foster, Professor of Literature, Vassar College A passionate lure to the sonnet's delights. - David Stanford Burr, Professor of Poetry NYU, Barnes & Noble anthologist From the Author To my surprise, five sonnets by the Other Woman in my novel Chancey On Top received lavishpraise, so I decided to incorporate them into in an anthology of illicit love sonnets. And,drawing upon my professional life, to include a page of insight and advice on the facing page of each poem. When the Tiger Woods'textings to his mistress appearedon the internet theyseemed so heartfelt that I decided to try to tinker them into sonnets and include them, too. This worked well so I did the same with public domain material from other pop-culture icons, including John and Elizabeth Edwards, Prince Charles, Princess Diana, and Camilla Shand.I love the Princess Diana sonnet. Bear in mind that these are herexact words; I merelytinkered them into sonnet form.Here's theopening quatrain: Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be; I never wanted gifts or fancy wages, just to be Queen of Hearts and then decree love for the unloved to last for ages. Myfavorite in the collection isElan Haverford's Longing, in which she reveals the pain of being an Other Woman. She tells does this by describing a surreal village called Thinkingofyou: The village I dwell in, Thinkingofyou, Is a maddeningly melancholy town Where the clocks are locked in a strange snafu And the forget-me-nots are hand-me-downs. Throughout theanthology we see the world through the prism of poets trapped in love triangles.I use each sonnet as a springboard to a page of insight into the heart, mind, and voyage of the poet. It is easy to pontificate, but it is difficult to be wise; easy to funny but difficult to be witty: I wanted to those finished pages to both enlighten and entertain. The reader will be the judge of whether I succeeded - thoughtotruly understand the reality of the prison of illicit love, one must first pass through it as an inmate. (If you like that analogy, you'll likely also enjoy my How to Break Out of Prison, which distills my lifetime experience counseling corporate executives at one end of the spectrum, and prison inmates at the other.) Existentialists say that we are alone in the world and that this life is the only one wehave. If so, it might be wise to scrap the notion that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. So, if you meet a person in whose presence you no longer feel unloved and lonely, then to fail to succumb to the temptation to fully experience that person might perhaps be a form of disloyalty. From the Inside Flap COME RIDE THE HEART'S SECRET HIGHWAY Sonnets disclose journeys of illicit love perfectly. A forbidden drama unfolds in just twelve lines, then a two-line heroic couplet delivers a startling message, a veritable epiphany. To absorb this startling compilation is to share the delights and despairs of a stunning phalanx of sinners, including ardent Mary Wroth, mordant Michael Drayton, shameless Alfred Douglas, mystical W. B. Yeats, rebellious Edna St. Vincent Millay, unrepentant Edna Worthley Underwood, and puckish Chandler Haste. About the Author John Wareham, author, poet, and lecturer, is an eminent coach and counselor to upward strivers-from prison inmates to corporate chiefs. His works include the life-changer, How to Break Out of Prison, the critically acclaimed novel Chancey On Top, and the bestselling psycho-political thriller, The President's Therapist (and the secret intervention to treat the alcoholism of George W. Bush).
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