{"product_id":"9780986053351","title":"Sonnets about Serial Killers: The Poetry Your Teacher Wouldn't Let You Read","description":"THE POETRY YOUR TEACHER WOULDN'T LET YOU READ\u003cp\u003eSomtow flogs a dead horse to life in this astonishing collection of sonnets. Horror and humor, pathos and putridity, the sublime, the subliminal, and the sublimated all blend together in this tour-de-force of madcap invention. Exposing the human condition in all its grittiness and unwitting comedy, this book is the first collection of S.P. Somtow's poetry since the pretentious outpourings of his adolescent years. \u003cbr\u003e\"There's life in this art form,\" he says, \"plenty of life, as long as you're willing to dive headlong into the maëlstorm of our insane twenty-first century existence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis subject matter comes from the tabloids: serial killers, sex scandals, mass murderers, and hate crimes. Distilled into the severe discipline of the sonnet form, these tawdry subjects find a new resonance, and new relevance, and we recognize in ourselves a continuity with our own past....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Be scared, my friends. Be very, very scared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will take you from the paths you've known,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo sights unseen, dark corners never bared,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo deeds undared, halls never braved alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForget the world of Spenser's airy Faerie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShakespeare's bisexual angst, or Petrarch's passion;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis poet's cream's decidedly non-dairy,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis skewed perspective somewhat not the fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo this poetic banquet do I bring\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInquiring minds that have inquired too much:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf Court TV and Tabloids do I sing,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf killers, perverts, hypocrites, and such,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor in life's drama, they too play their part.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInhuman horror hides a human heart.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diplodocus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49782592012528,"sku":"9780986053351","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780986053351","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}