Providence Sonnets: 1-33, The Persecutions

Inspired by Umberto Crenca's "Divine Providence" series of Providence, Rhode Island street scenes, Jon Woodson's "Providence Sonnets, 1-33, The Persecutions" venture far beyond literal descriptions (ekphrasis). The sonnets shuffle history, anecdote, art, literature, and philosophy, like a pack of Tarot cards laid out to depict the past, present, and future in a kaleidoscope of simultaneous images and voices.