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Poetry. A buffeting sequence of dramatic monologues that provoke and disturb, Larissa Szporluk's TRAFFIC WITH MACBETH evokes a dark world linked to the black magic of Shakespeare's tortured Scottish assassin, usurper of kings. Baroque in their sweep of high style and low slang, melody and dissonance, these poems use shifting animate and inanimate speakers and surrealist leaps to convey human brutality, the vulnerability of women and children, madness, and the struggle to escape the limitations of this world. "Larissa Szporluk is no coward soul, and her poems have always taken dark, unflinching, daring risks, thematically an
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Manufacturer: Tupelo Press
Release date: 30 September 2011
ISBN-10 : 193679702X | ISBN-13: 9781936797028
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Release date: 30 September 2011
ISBN-10 : 193679702X | ISBN-13: 9781936797028
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Read in 2016 (97 books items)"Excerpt from "Nihilist" "there are no eyes, just destinies, and there goes mine-- streak across the heather, hairless wonder who knew better than to sit around and apprehend the thicket through and through." Excerpt from "Edgepoeple" "In the jigsaw of eternity, dying is the glue." Excerpt from "Accordion" "When you hate yourself, there is one less house keeping you in, at home. I'm running amok with emptiness where there's no such thing." "
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