Poetry
Sumptuary Laws
- Publisher
- Véhicule Press, “Signal Editions” series
- Published
- October 1, 2012
- Pages
- 72
- Price
- $18.00
- ISBN
- 9781550653311
- Language
- English
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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.
Reviews
“An urbane, surrealist-influenced, lexically ingenious whip-smartness shot through with a beating-heart desire.”- Stewart Cole, The Urge
Description from the publisher Véhicule Press, seen in October 2026 · Source ↗
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