Sonnets for Albert (Bloomsbury), the new poetry collection by Trinidad-born Anthony Joseph, is a deeply personal, deeply emotional exploration of family, masculinity, and “the impact of being the son of an absent, or mostly absent, father.” Using a form Joseph calls the calypso sonnet — an Afro-Caribbean twist on the classic fourteen-line model — the poems extend their meditations to questions of loss, longing, and self-making.