Sacrifice zones : poems
Tongue, Samuel2020
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The poems in Samuel Tongue’s debut collection explore the meshwork and mess of living lives dependent on ‘sacrifice zones’: places, peoples, and animals that become expendable in the maintenance of civilised society. From medieval animal trials to extinctions in colonial Van Diemen’s land; from personal online data collection, to Quint’s Ahab-like obsession with killing sharks in Jaws, these poems trouble and are troubled by the cost of sacrifice. If the ritual roots of sacrifice (sacer [holy] + faciō [to do/make]) are intended to render the material world sacred, then what kind of religions are we caught up in now? With poems that muddy the religious and theological with the animal concerns of weevils, ticks, magpies, and whales, Tongue finds the beating engine at the heart of things.
Main title:
Sacrifice zones : poems / Samuel Tongue.
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Imprint:
South Lanarkshire : Red Squirrel, 2020.
Collation:
56 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781910437995 (pbk)
Dewey class:
821.914
Language:
English
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BRN:
3017925