Sumptuary Laws

By Nyla Matuk

Taking as her inspiration the feudal rules that once enforced social rank by legislating what a person was permitted to wear and eat, Matuk discovers a new metaphor for contemporary desire in her first full-length collection. Through wildly imaginative and linguistically daring poems she explores 21st-century "sumptuary laws" that dictate societal divisions of luxury and necessity, splendor and squalor, and in the process creates an anthology of irresistible originality.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550653318
• ISBN13: 9781550653311
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Signal Editions
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"