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Sumptuary Laws

by (author) Nyla Matuk

Publisher
Vehicule Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2012
Category
NON-CLASSIFIABLE
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550653311
    Publish Date
    Oct 2012
    List Price
    $18.00

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Sumptuary Laws, Nyla Matuk's first full-length collection, is a work of irresistible originality. Taking as her inspiration the feudal rules that once enforced social rank by legistating what a person was permitted to wear and eat, Matuk discovers a new metaphor for contemporary desire and explores, in wildly imaginative and linguistically daring poems, the 21st century "sumptuary laws" that dictate our divisions of luxury and necessity, splendour and squalor. A poet of immense gifts, Matuk has written a book of lasting impact.

About the author

Nyla Matuk is the author of Sumptuary Laws (Vehicule Press, 2012), nominated for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Award for a best first book of poetry in Canada. Sumptuary Laws was named a National Post best book of poetry in 2012 and a ‘must-read’ book of poetry at CBC Books. Her poems have appeared recently in PN Review, The Fiddlehead, and the New Poetries VI anthology (Carcanet, 2015).

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