Traffic with Macbeth

by Larissa Szporluk

A buffeting sequence of dramatic monologues that provoke and disturb, Larissa Szporluk's Traffic with Macbeth evokes a dark world linked to the black magic of Shakespeare's tortured Scottish assassin, usurper of kings. Baroque in their sweep of high style and low slang, melody and dissonance, these poems use shifting animate and inanimate speakers and surrealist leaps to convey human brutality, the vulnerability of women and children, madness, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193679702X
• ISBN13: 9781936797028
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 58 Pages