Thumbscrews Book Launch!

Come celebrate the launch of Natalie Zina Walschots' first book.



Friday, October 26th at 7:30pm
Pages Books, 1135 Kensington Road

Thumbscrews is a poetic engagement with the aesthetics of sadomasochism and consensual pain. It employs the techniques of mannerist poetry to constrain language as ropes, cuffs, or shackles might be used to constrain the body. Each poem can be taken as a miniature sadomasochistic encounter where language is tied up, beaten, and twisted into submission. This book abuses language; language begs for it.