Supplice
โ Scribed by Cotler, Zachary T
- Book ID
- 108552909
- Publisher
- University Press of Colorado
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 157 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781885635419
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Winner of the 2014 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Supplice is the second installment in T. Zachary Cotler's sonnet sequence that began with Sonnets to the Humans. "Supplice," the systematic infliction of physical and/or mental torture, is both the subject and the main character of this sequence. These are amatory sonnets, but with love and rhyme tortured into broken and boneset textures. Supplice herself, the dark lady of these sonnets, is difficult to pin down with an epithet. Is she the angel of reality, banality, popular culture, pornography, uncertainty, or economic and environmental crisis? She has something to do with the history of cruelty and pain, with the devaluation of traditional ideas of beauty, and with the silence and science that have replaced divinity. A moving love triangle is to be found in these pages, the vertices of which appear to be Supplice, the reader/writer, and one's unobtainable ideal.
Supplice is Cotler's third book of poems. In...
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