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Can a seemingly anachronistic literary form—the sonnet—resonate with today's reader, as the subtitle "Sonnets for Our Time" suggests?
To live up to its name, the sixty sonnets in I Thought They'd Be Around Forever must cover a wide range of topics, the immediate and the timeless: politics, wealth disparity, environmental degradation, species extinction, racism, greed, sex, death, grief, aging, etc. and, of course, love and loss. And, to be true to the sonnet form, each sonnet must capture the essence of its assigned topic in fourteen lines of ten syllables each. Further, the sonnet must touch both the reader's heart and mind. No mean task for a centuries-old poetic form firmly fixed in love's literary embrace.
James A. Baumgard was born and raised in Chicago, IL. From the monotonous mid-west, he moved to mountainous Boulder, CO., where he spent a winter making and selling sheepskin coats. In pursuit of more adventure, came spring, he headed further west, to San Francisco, alas, too late to enjoy the "summer of love." Still, he loved the City by the Bay well enough to sojourn there for eighteen years; during which he wrote computer programs to support his photography business.
When family beckoned, he upped stakes and southward moved to Corona, CA., where he currently lives, writes, and line dances.