Publisher's Synopsis
Merrill Moore remains the most prolific sonneteer in English - The New Yorker once estimated his output at 50,000 'fourteeners'. As this selection makes clear, the best of these are extremely fine and original - memorable, well-turned, witty, strange. For his obsessive sifting and valuable act of recovery, the editor David R. Slavitt deserves a prize, but the greatest reward for his efforts is, delightfully, ours." - David Yezzi, The New Criterion