Voluntary Servitude: Poems
of Mark Wunderlich
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A chilling and masterful second poetry collection by Mark Wunderlich, the author of the award-winning The Anchorage Sometimes the heart breaks. Sometimesit is not held hostage. The red worldwhere cells prepare for the unexpectedsplays 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.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 64 pages
- Publisher Graywolf Press
- Publication Date October 1st 2004
- First Publication 2004
- Language English
- ISBN 9781555974084
- Edition Not informed
- Category Poetry & Essays
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