Traffic with Macbeth

A buffeting sequence of dramatic monologues that provoke and disturb, Larissa Szporluks Traffic with Macbeth evokes a dark world linked to the black magic of Shakespeares 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 the struggle to escape the limitations of this world.

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