Four Crowns for Mother Earth

A crown of sonnets is a rarely written, complex form, consisting of fifteen sonnets linked by theme, rhyme scheme, and first and last lines. Sandy Eastoak has written four of them, collected together in this illustrated volume. Corona Gaia addresses environmental devastation and the medicine that artists and poets bring on behalf of all forms of life. Corona Fauna describes animals from inside their own experience. Corona Flora explores plants in relation to other plants, animals, winds and waters. Corona Rhea honors lowly, obscure, and often despised animals and plants. Together they are a song of deep love for the earth and its diversity of living beings. The sonnets in these crowns are finely crafted, using a variation on the Italian rhyme pattern: abbacddcefgefg. Vivid images, unobtrusive rhymes, a sacramental ambience, and a radical perspective combine with detailed botanical and zoological knowledge to create a unique and unforgettable book.