Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize-winning poet and nationally recognized
literary critic Craig Morgan Teicher's Welcome to Sonnetville, New
Jersey is a poetry collection about entering middle age, raising a
young family, sustaining a marriage, and taking care of a severely
disabled child. Built around two sequences of sonnets, and interrupted
by two sets of lyric poems, a set of prose poems, and a long poem about
death, the book narrates a family's move to the suburbs and their coming
to terms with the ghosts of the past and with hard-to-hold hopes for the
future.