Cohort

By Philip Fried

This collection explores territory where poems haven't dared to venture-the toxic side of the Information Age as it veers out of control. Its three-poem introduction and book-length sonnet sequence draw inspiration from the sonnet's origins to update it for the Digital Age. Linked from its earliest days with legal proceedings and a modern psychology of conflicted love, the sonnet held together what wanted to fly apart. Acknowledging this tradition of warring but tightly bound forces, Fried re-conceives the contemporary sonnet as an arena where fragments of self and samples of lingo play off against one another. And coloring these contests is a love intrigue that implicates the reader.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 095612870X
• ISBN13: 9780956128706
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Salmon Publishing
• Length: 51 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.8"