Sonnets of Dusk and Dawn

By John Lars Zwerenz

Sonnets of Dusk and Dawn takes the reader on a mystical journey through both the brightest of days and the darkest of nights. This collection of poetry, written with spiritual language uses both classical rhyme and meter to express what is ineffable in the ethos of the human experience. In this anthology the poet pays homage to many of his grand piers in the form of several odes. This volume is comprised of a preface written by the author and eighty-four new sonnets. The sonnets which are to be found within this book represent the best in contemporary American verse.


Publisher: Xlibris
Format: Softcover
Page Count: 93
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 19, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469183404

John Lars Zwerenz

John Lars Zwerenz (1969- ) is an American journalist, poet and musician known for his romantic, impressionistic and mystical works. He owns a Bachelor's Degree in English from Queens College at The City University of New York, but at the age of 24 he left his graduate studies in order to travel and write poetry. His writings are deeply spiritual in subject matter and tone. Much of his verse employs transcendental language and is rich in meaning and musicality. Eternal Verse,(2013) widely lauded as a poetic masterpiece takes the reader on an astounding journey through the beautific realms of paradise. It has just been published by Xlibris of Simon And Schuster fame, and comprises his sixth collection of poetry. His latest volume of verse, A Lady Fair And Other Poems,(2013) published on the heels of Eternal Verse, is a book of rhyming stanzas of varied lengths and themes, all composed with classical meter and with great attention to visionary detail. This seventh volume of rhyme has been described as the poetic diary of a sailor who travels as a troubadour through the gilded gardens of a wondrous world. Zwerenz is a mystical romantic, and his poetry has been recognized by many literary critics as the best and most original verse ever penned since the death of Robert Frost of The United States in 1963. Zwerenz is also the author of Selected Poems,(2011) a poetic memoir on travel and adventure, Mist and Flame,(2011) a book of lyrical, romantic poetry, Visionary Wanderings,(2012) an astonishing volume of mystifying verse compared to the labor and results of Rembrandt, Sonnets of Dusk and Dawn,(2012) a collection of classically styled sonnets, many of which laud the poet's romantic precursors, and An American Romance,(2012) a novella which contains in its appendix Songs of Rapture and Other Poems, an exclusively mystical collection of poetry which explores the realms of existential darkness and salvific light. Zwerenz is 44 years of age, and currently resides in The United States. ~ R. Canter

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CONTENTS

Preface

Dawn

Ode To Coleridge

Ode To Edgar Allan Poe

Sappho

The Voyage Of Icarus

The Snow-Covered Hill

One Summer Morn

Ode To Robert Louis Stevenson

The Bastion By The Sea

The Blessed Dead Are We

Verse

The Journey Of Aeneas

The Colonial House

The Fourteenth Sonnet

Diamond Stars

Whiskey

Bourbon

Chablis

Kingdoms

The Auburn Dawn

My Chamber

The Painter

A Night In Paris

By A Wall Of Stone

Hamlet’s Guest

The Cloister Of Kings

Fruits Of The Ascension

Conversion

After The Rain

Beethoven’s Ghost

The Mansion

Halos

The Storm

The Thirty-Fourth Sonnet

August

Ode To Bobby Darin

The Second World War

The Acropolis

Homer

Sonnets Of Travel

Exile

The Happy Fault

An English Sonnet

Vermont

The Art Gallery

Love

A Picnic

Before The Ball

The Ball

Night

Alone With Renee

Claudia

Belgium

Reflections

Azure Heights

The Visitor

Central Park (2012)

Ode To Lord Byron

The Mansion By The Sea

Switzerland

Kissing In The Woods

Wines

Ode To Baudelaire

The Hurricane

Calm

Buried

The Crypt

The Chameleon

My Host

The Dance

Advice To Young Poets

The Carriage

On Betrothal

Ode To Henry David Thoreau

An Irish Garden

Raptures Of White

My Lady

The Fountain

Dusk

TO MY FAIR MARIA

PREFACE

When I was seventeen, in my junior year of high school, I discovered a blue anthology of poetry which when opened and read, instilled in me a profound sense of happiness. For the life which breathed forth from those poems expressed a life I was leading and have led ever since. That life was one of freshness and freedom, a life acutely aware of the spiritual realm, and of life everlasting. I became fully convinced that the poet, in order to fulfill his role as an artist, must become an instrument of the Divine One for the sake of his fellow man, in a spirit of servitude. Much in the same way Saint Francis Of Assisi asked to become God’s instrument on earth, the poet must ask for that same charism, if he truly wishes his work to be authentic. I was confirmed in this belief when I read The Summa Theologica by Saint Thomas Aquinas at the same time I discovered my