Jeff from Michigan

    Poetry Book by Jeff Caminsky: The Sonnets of William Shakespeare

    Friday, October 31, 2008, 04:57 PM EST [Poetry]

    I'm not sure whether this qualifies as a "poetry book" by me, since I'm not exactly the author (I just play one on the radio), but I recently published this book on Shakespeare's sonnets, and thought I'd share the news with the group. 

    I designed the cover myself...handicapped by a complete and utter lack of natural artistic ability.  I am a passably mediocre amateur photographer, though, and have learned to photoshop images from some of my pictures, so I've had a bit of luck making book covers for myself.  I've uploaded the photo to the website.

    Writing this book was actually a lot more fun than I'd imagined when I began the project.  I learned a great deal about Elizabethan England, even quite aside from Shakespeare.  And it got me starting to write poetry again myself...which I'm starting to send off, now that I have a few that pass my own internal "wince" test (but more on that later...if and when I have anything positive to share with the group).

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