Thanks for Noticing: The Interpretation of Desire is a collection of 154 original sonnets and glosses. The number 154 invites comparison to Shakespeare's 154 sonnets. The book is a prosimetrum, that is an integrated text of both poetry and prose. Biblical texts such as the book of Jeremiah, Dante's La Vita Nuova, TS Eliot's "The Waste Land," and Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire are precedents for this prosimetrum.Lovers of all kinds turn to Shakespeare for his depth of emotion and richness of thought, even though most of the sonnets were written to a beautiful young man and some to a mysterious dark lady. With copious commentary, these fresh sonnets similarly range through many moods, from youthful folly to maturity, from infatuation to insight, often with images from the world's religions, to explore the sacred beauty of sex and love. Because the sonnets are arranged by parts of the Mass, and identify the spiritual with the erotic, some may consider the book blasphemous.Epigraphs (from Catullus to Steely Dan) introduce most sonnets, and notes explain terms and allusions from many spiritual and philosophical traditions (A to Z, American Indian to Zoroastrian, Fa Tsang to Paul Tillich, Nagarjuna to Wittgenstein). Notes also explain references to science (xylem tissue to the Higgs boson).The book begins with a Frontispiece (the author's original tune, a setting for one of the sonnets), a Foreword, and an Introduction (10,000 words about desire, love, sex, and the sonnet form). Appendices outline how these sonnets fit into an overview of world religions and describe the historical circumstances of Shakespeare's sonnets. An author's biographical sketch and several endorsements of the book are included. April 26, 2014 was the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's baptism (his birth date is unknown); and this book, the poems for which were completed on that day, is a way of honoring Shakespeare's own struggles with his beloved young man and the mysterious dark lady. This book is offered to readers of poetry and those interested in world religions, personal development, relationships, LGBTQIA literature, and gender studies.