A collection of poems that amuse, impress, and finally dazzle the reader. Williamson's innovations in the sonnet form create diamonds out of carbon. Greg Williamson has lived in Nashville. Tennessee and was educated at Vanderbilt and Johns Hopkins Universities. His poetry has won the Nathan Haskell Dole Prize, the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize and a Whiting Award. He currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore, Maryland and Duluth. Georgia.