Ai s characters tend to speak in a flat even.
Cruelty killing floor by ali mother.
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.
Ai ogawa born florence anthony.
October 21 1947 march 20 2010 was an american poet and educator who won the 1999 national book award for poetry for vice.
So these here poems have teeth.
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In this volume ai creates a wider vision and pushes her poetry toward a more universal view of life and.
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New and selected poems.
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.
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.
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.
Sin 1986 contains more complex dramatic monologues as ai assumes actual personae from joe mccarthy to the kennedy brothers.
I especially loved cruelty.
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Cruelty 1973 killing floor 1979 sin 1986 fate 1991 greed 1993 vice.
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The way the first poem in the collection twenty year marriage opens is a clue to this poet s psychology.
No surrender 2010 this page is based on the copyrighted wikipedia ai ogawa.
I want to take.
New and selected poems 1999 dread.
Poems 2004 why can t i leave you.
Fassbinder was a west german filmmaker actor playwright theatre director composer cinematographer editor and essayist.
Rainer werner fassbinder german.
Ai is known for her mastery of the dramatic monologue as a poetic form as well as for taking on dark controversial topics in her work.
Magnificent gut and heart wrenching poetry.
31 may 1945 10 june 1982 sometimes credited as r.
Killing floor expands on the themes of violence and sexuality in cruelty.
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He is widely regarded as a prominent figure and catalyst of the new german cinema movement.
About writing in the dramatic monologue form she s said.
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.
He told their trial she became unrecognisable to him and it appeared as though she became possessed.
