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More Sonnets from the Portuguese by Janet C.M. Eldred

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Janet C. M. Eldred More Sonnets from the Portuguese   Whitepoint Press  https://whitepointpress.com/our-books/ By the numbers   ISBN 1944856064  Publication: 2016 Total pages: 86  Number of poems: 52 I met Jane C. M. Eldred in a 24PearlStreet  class . S he was working on what she called a    "longish sonnet sequence" that intrigued me.  When her publisher asked  me to review More Sonnets from the Portuguese, I was excited to see the completed project. While Janet has other works of prose, this is her first book of poetry.   �Nancy Chen Long __________ Janet C. M. Eldred grew up in California's San Joaquin Valley. She is currently Chellgren Professor at the University of Kentucky where she teaches creative nonfiction, editing, and literature in the English Department. She is the author of Sentimental Attachments (Heinemann, 2005), a volume of creative nonfiction, and Literate Zeal: Gender and the Making of a New Yorker Ethos  ...