Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed

Edited by D. Gilson Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-591-0 (paperback, $27) 978-1-60235-592-7 (PDF, $9.99) © 2016 by Parlor Press. 242 pages, with illustrations. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed brings together 154 remixes of William Shakespeare's 1609 sonnet sequence. If Shakespeare the auteur and his sonnets have influenced so much of how we think (and act) as humans, this collection asks how might we be un- (and re-) done by the conscious act of responding to (or through) these seventeenth-century verses. Here you will find a wide variety of remixes: entries various by their form — poems, short essays, comics, songs, and art; and various by their remixer — poets, essayists, artists, musicians, and scholars. Here you will walk into a queer utopia, a place where things and people touch, though they are too often taught not to. In these pages, Shakespeare meets Paul Simon a