Not a Soul but Us: A Story in 84 Sonnets [Paperback]

Set in rural England during and after the bubonic plague pandemic of 13481349, this verse novel drives to the heart of what we humans are capable of when boiled down to our very core in the struggle to surviveand how, in more ways than one, its not our intelligence or our resiliency, but love and the non-human animals that save us.Set in rural England during and after the bubonic plague pandemic of 13481349, this verse novel drives to the heart of what we humans are capable of when boiled down to our very core in the struggle to survive.Winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize.Timely, remarkable, and unforgettable, these eighty-four sonnets are so well crafted that we cease to notice the form, swept away as we are by the current of the story and its song.US