Supplice by T. Zachary Cotler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cotler, T. Zachary, 1981-

Series:

Colorado Prize for Poetry

Colorado prize for poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

English poetry.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (79 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Fort Collins, Colorado : The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University 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. These are amatory sonnets, but with love and rhyme tortured into broken and boneset textures. Supplice herself, the dark lady of these poems, 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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Who on Earth; ONE; Struck a chime of delta clay; This alien salt; A little heap of salt; And sleep inside inside; Naked to you; When a weathervane spins at a constant speed; TWO; What if I open this?; What if he loves what's "perfect,"; Place in which nothingness; Supplice of desiring; She tells him one night of her long dead sister; Temple of Discontinuity . . .; Hurt but to heal, to cool-what heat,; THREE; Vacuum tubes from old tvs:; -that she can hold his head; The other shore; Hurt but what one asked to feel,; Raking lace; Wax seal and watermark

Open your mouth, he will seeFOUR; And yet what Earth was this not quite; And when will you be here?; A man built a watch.; Thousand white suns sands; Harbor hidden in the heat; On a still day, on a fallow hill; One x1000 ends to one; FIVE; A man came down from the mountain; How near now to asymptote zero; He took the book; Needles and snow fall behind; Out the cabin window,; Walking over particles; She flips from mock-irenic to; SIX; She took him to her gallery.; Drunk on liquid capital, skipping,; Listening yes,; Video art or an ad; Away from the violently quieted; Vulturine zeitgeist

The mask's eyes:SEVEN; Because there was-; A neural fire becomes; Where are we at the edge; A bed in a windowless room.; House on a seaport road. And that; Ship of December; American rain and French lace.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781885635426

1885635427

OCLC:

899009677