Traffic with Macbeth

Auteur

Larissa Szporluk is the author of five books of poetry, including TRAFFIC WITH MACBETH (Tupelo Press, 2011), EMBRYOS AND IDIOTS (Tupelo Press, 2007), and THE WIND, MASTER CHERRY, THE WIND (Alice James Books, 2003). Born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she studied literature and writing at the University of Michigan, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Virginia. She is an associate professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

Texte du rabat

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 and linguistically. The turf of TRAFFIC WITH MACBETH is part heartland noir, part merciless domestic surreality, part fabular theater.... This book does 'mouth honor' to the entire spectacle of 'come what may,' from the 'blood at war / within a self' to the 'ghost-waves' of whatever music we can make of even our most brutal hours"--Lisa Russ Spaar.