Notebook of Last Things by Jon Thompson Keston Sutherland consisting of 35 Petrarchan sonnets

consisting of 35 Petrarchan sonnets for each of the steps Marie Stuart walked to execution

His logo-philia evinces a fascination not merely with language but with the workings of the human mind

becomes an essay in still life and a memento mori

North America: Copper Canyon Press

Notebook of Last Things by Jon Thompson Keston Sutherland consisting of 35 Petrarchan sonnetsOrganized around three sequences of numbered tercets, Notebook of Last Things maps a city undergoing dynamic, transformative change along with the sense of living that changeits rhythms and patterns, its peculiar commitments, its urgencies and pleasures as well as its inequalities, tensions, and fateful unsaids. Possessed by the drama of the ephemerality of experience, tuned into the drift of the present, Notebook of Last Things draws on the lyric to