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A collection written over fifty years, Makes You Stop and Think is the latest work from the accomplished and renowned poet Daniel Hoffman.”The sonnet is a sacred // vessel, it takes a civilization / to conceive its shape or know / its uses,” the poet Louise Bogan told ”a crowd of bearded youths” and ”rumpled girls.” Hoffman’s harvest of half a century’s sonnets shows the richness and power of their form. These poems revel in exploring memory and feeling:For reality is vintage and deliciousEspecially when you taste it while it brewsBecause it comes as love comes, heart-skip sudden,Yet long as a lifetime in a once past wishes,A gift you couldn’t have the wit to choose.