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The Bard meets the Backstreet Boys in this collection of 100 classic pop songs reimagined as Shakespearean sonnets
This hilarious book of poetry transforms disco staples, classic rock anthems, and recent chart-toppers into hilarious iambic pentameter! All your favorite songs are here, including hits by Jay-Z, Johnny Cash, Katy Perry, Michael Jackson, Talking Heads, and many others.
An entertaining journey into the world of Elizabethan poetry, and based on the immensely popular Tumblr of the same name, Pop Sonnets is the perfect gift for Shakespeare fans and music lovers alike.
“Ever wonder what Taylor Swift and Beyoncé would sound like in iambic pentameter? We hadn’t either, but now we can't get enough.” —TIME
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Release date
October 6, 2015 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781594748295
- File size: 6090 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781594748295
- File size: 6090 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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October 1, 2015
This slim volume will be greeted with delight by fans of pop music, poets, theatergoers, and readers. It will also be loved by anyone who picks up the book and opens to the Trammps's "Disco Inferno," which includes this spectacular line: "Now was the winter of our disco tent/ made glorious summer by this sonic groove." Didriksen's Tumblr and website (popsonnet.com) have proved popular enough to spawn this book, which is smart and funny and sure to have great general appeal. Readers aren't expected to have read the works of William Shakespeare to enjoy "Ice Ice Baby" recast in sonnet form. Even the introduction is full of cheeky fun. Divided into sections by theme (Sonnets of Love, Songs of Time and Mortality, etc.), the hits included here will be largely familiar to most readers (such as "U Can't Touch This" and "Thriller" and "Let It Go"). Some sonnets are taken from the online material, but half of the book's content is original to this publication. VERDICT Any reader who is intrigued by this concept will enjoy its fantastically skilled execution. [See "Editors' Fall Picks," LJ 9/1/15, p. 32.]--Audrey Snowden, Orrington P.L., ME
Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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