COARCTATE: ANTIGONE’S RETURN
COARCTATE: ANTIGONE’S RETURN & SELECTED POEMS
MARK DANIEL COHEN
In this volume, Mark Daniel Cohen offers, in the first part, a fresh and intelligent look at Sophocles, re-writing Antigone almost as a Beckettian version of Tristan and Isolde.
The modern-day domestic drama is continued in the second part of the volume, in which selected poems aptly combine the trivial and the sublime, the mark and measure of every great classic.
Camelia Elias writes the introduction under a contaminated spell.
6×9” | B&W | 124 pp
ISBN 978-8792633002
CATEGORY
Drama & Poetry
EDITION
Standard paperback 2010 | $16.67
NOTE
Drama and selected poems
REVIEWS
In Cohen’s work the characters in the play and speakers in the poems move towards converging to limit, while exploiting the way in which the elements of what is enunciated are structurally at odds with the underlying thematic action. They communicate an expressionless affect, yet this affect is one of unending passion and one which consolidates the idea that what ought to be appreciated in any poetic language is what resists full comprehension. — CAMELIA ELIAS, from the introduction, ‘A touch of Tongues’
