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Some Background for


Thanks for Noticing:
The Interpretation
of Desire

WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED?
  • Lovers, present, past, and future
  • Folks interested in World Religions, especially dealing with sexuality
  • LGBTQIA+ folks and allies
  • Poetry lovers and poetry-tolerant people
  • Theology, Postmodernism, Psychology

The 85-word "Advisement" on the title page

My 365-word perspective on Shakespeare's Sonnets.

A bio-sketch of Vern Barnet

The Brochure.PDF
      front and back (top and bottom with special folds)

Interviews, one for the Interfaith Council, and a much, much longer, largely theolgical, one.

CHURCH SERIES.-- I was invited to present a
  • 4-week select series at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral
  • 4-week series about sonnets, Shakespeare's and mine at St Andrews.
  • 4-week Lenten series at Redeemer Episcopal Church
  • 4-week Lenten series at Good Shephed Episcopal Church
LentenSeries2023program.PDF       LentenSeries2023sonnets.PDF 

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The index for the 2015 publication which includes
    * a description of the book
    * the 750-word Preface (but not the 11,000-word Introduction)
    * the blurbs on the back cover
    * all the prepublication comments in the book's appendix
    * videos of many people reading various sonnets
    * and other material, much of it now dated to the first edition

 
If you wish additional background,
please let me know.