Voluntary Servitude: Poems - Paperback

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Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9781555974084

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by Mark Wunderlich (Author)

A chilling and masterful second poetry collection by Mark Wunderlich, the author of the award-winning The Anchorage

Sometimes the heart breaks. Sometimes
it is not held hostage. The red world
where cells prepare for the unexpected
splays open at the window's ledge.
Be not human you inhuman thing. -from "Amaryllis"

Voluntary Servitude asks of the beloved, "You say, Don't wreck me, and I say I won't, but how can I know that?" Here the poet is both servant and master to memory, sex, family, and the will of the lover, and the resulting poems describe the physical and psychological constraints and releases of relationships at the breaking point.

Author Biography

Mark Wunderlich is the author of The Anchorage, which won the 1999 Lambda Literary Award. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Number of Pages: 64

Dimensions: 0.23 x 9.1 x 6.5 IN

Publication Date: October 01, 2004

Award: Lambda Literary Awards (2004)

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