Thumbscrews: Poems

by Natalie Zina Walschots and Natalie Zina Walschots

The 2007 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry Winner! Thumbscrews is a poetic engagement with the aesthetics of sadomasochism and consensual pain. It employs the techniques of mannerist poetry to constrain language as ropes, cuffs, or shackles that might be used to constrain the body. Each poem can be taken as a miniature sadomasochistic encounter where language is tied up, beaten, and twisted into submission. This book abuses language; language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0973943866
• ISBN13: 9780973943863
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Invisible Publishing
• Length: 88 Pages