Cloud Journal Author:David Rigsbee Cloud Journal by David Rigsbee is a collection of two sonnet sequences. The first sequence, "Sonnets to Hamlet," narrates the tragedy of a fire in the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, that killed twenty-five people. The second sequence, "Cloud Journal," is an extended meditation on place and perception. R... more »igsbee's book shows both his own mastery of this classical form and the potential of the form itself, to accommodate narrative and lyric with a contemporary voice.« less