Voluntary Servitude: Poems

A chilling and masterful second poetry collection by Mark Wunderlich, the author of the award-winning The Anchorage

Sometimes the heart breaks. Sometimes
it is not held hostage. The red world
where cells prepare for the unexpected
splays open at the window's ledge.
Be not human you inhuman thing. -from "Amaryllis"

Voluntary Servitude asks of the beloved, "You say, Don't wreck me, and I say I won't, but how can I know that?" Here the poet is both servant and master to memory, sex, family, and the will of the lover, and the resulting poems describe the physical and psychological constraints and releases of relationships at the breaking point.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 10/01/2004
ISBN: 9781555974084
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.50w x 0.23d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Nominee

Review Citations: Lambda Book Report 04/01/2005 pg. 19
Publishers Weekly 11/22/2004 pg. 57