The Devil's Dreamland by Sara Tantlinger5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() When Sara Tantlinger announced her next collection, ‘Cradleland of Parasites,’ would be inspired by the Black Death, I was very intrigued. I’ve been working harder to read dark poetry. ** Edited as review is now live on Kendall Reviews! ** It was actually quite comforting knowing that disease is mankind's oldest and most formidable foe. If you are a reader easily triggered by body horror or vivid word pictures of agonizing death, putrid decay, corpses, burrowing worms, bodily fluids, symptoms of disease-you might want to skip this one.īut as for me and my kind, this is how we cope with the horrors we face in real life. all of them carry the weight and severity of man vs. Still others as the collectors of the dead or the doctors or children. Others from the perspective of the dying host. ![]() ![]() Some poems are told as the voice of the plague itself. "In the name of Pestilence, I ride, / your scared lord of contagion / bow down beneath divine damnation" If just reading this review or the subject matter of these poems have you thinking, "It's too soon!" A poetry collection inspired by the bubonic plague released during the actual Coronavirus pandemic of 2020? How prophetically macabre. ![]()
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