Thumbscrews: poems

byNatalie Walschots

October 10, 2007|
Thumbscrews: poems by Natalie Walschots
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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 begs for it. Thumbscrews engages with the sexual subculture of BDSM in content as well as in form. It explores the erotic ''scene'' and the prevalence of role-playing in the kinky bedroom, examines various settings as ''pervertable'' locations, and chronicles a series of embarrassing trips to the emergency room. Poems are shaped from the hobbled language of email, visual representations of pain, and odes to various implements.
Natalie Zina Walschots is a poet and music journalist. Her first book of poetry, Thumbscrews (2007), won the inaugural Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her poetry has appeared widely in literary magazines including Carousel, Broken Pencil, Dandelion, Open Letter, Rampike, Matrix and dead (g)end(er). She holds an MA in Eng...
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Title:Thumbscrews: poems
Format:Paperback
Product dimensions:88 pages, 7 X 4.75 X 0.5 in
Shipping dimensions:88 pages, 7 X 4.75 X 0.5 in
Published:October 10, 2007
Publisher:Invisible Publishing
Language:English
Appropriate for ages:All ages
ISBN - 13:9780973943863

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