Here on Earth: 53 Sonnets

Larry Goodell is nearly legendary in New Mexico for his poems, songs, and performances. Personable, ornery, and mystical as a shovel, he has been called the “Aristophanes of the juniper/piñon scrublands.” Here he writes about his garden, his ditch, tending to the basics with pollen and myth. These are sonnets with roots in buttermilk sky, Gertrude Stein, and boogie woogie–a selection of acrobatic verse without a net.