Calculated To Reflect The Sixty Minutes In An Hour Of Heightened Imaginative Contemplation, The Poems In Ernest Hilbert's First Book, Sixty Sonnets, Contain Memories Of Violence, Historical Episodes, Humorous Reflections, Quiet Despair, Violent Discord, Public Outrage, And Private Nightmares. A Cast Of Fugitive Characters Share Their Desperate Lives-failed Novelists, Forgotten Literary Critics, Cruel Husbands, Puzzled Historians, Armed Robbers, Jobless Alcoholics, Exasperated Girlfriends, High School Dropouts, Drowned Children, And Defeated Boxers. These Characters Populate Love Poems ( My Love, We Know How Species Run Extinct ), Satires ( The Way Of The Human Variety, Not Even Happy Just Being Happy ), Elegies ( The Cold Edge Of The World Closed On You, Kissed You Shut ), And Songs Of Sorrow ( Seasons Start Slowly.