Cruelty is the first of six poetry books by ai and in my opinion her most significant.
Cruelty killing floor by ali i.
Cruelty killing floor by ali is a gem.
She asserts her reputation as a poet unafraid of exposing the baseness of society with topics ranging from abuse to murder.
Cruelty killing floor by ali is a gem this classic reprint series make available ai s first two classic collection including the lamont poetry selection killing floor in one volume her poems are crystal clear immediately engaging and often apocalyptic.
2 in vice a collection of seventeen new poems accompanies several selected poems from ai s earlier works cruelty killing floor sin fate and greed spanning well over twenty five years these dramatic mono logues visualize the harsh reality of vice in america.
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Ai s characters tend to speak in a flat even.
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Published in 1978 and a winner of the.
Killing floor 1978 the volume that followed cruelty includes a poem called the kid which is spoken in the voice of a boy who has just murdered his family.
When cruelty was published in 1973 i read the collection repeatedly transported by the mystery in the poems and by the politics of gender on almost every page.
Both cruelty and killing floor have disturbing yet necessary imagery the instruments of torture in her gifted hands serve as a cutting away of a corrupted social disorder.
I especially loved cruelty.
You keep me waiting in a truck with its one good wheel stuck in.
Mar 18 2020 david williams rated it it was amazing.
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Killing floor is the title poem of ai s second collection of poems and represents a departure from the poems of her first collection cruelty 1973.
So these here poems have teeth.
The way the first poem in the collection twenty year marriage opens is a clue to this poet s psychology.
Stark in its hopelessness cruelty and killing floor paint the picture of poverty and oppression in their most tangible real life implications.
Even though they are does math rather old they are still.
This classic reprint series make available ai s first two classic collection including the lamont poetry selection killing floor in one volume her poems are crystal clear immediately engaging and often apocalyptic.
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