Supplice

Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University Winner of the 2014 Colorado Prize for Poetry,  Supplice  is the second installment in T. Zachary Cotler’s sonnet sequence that began with  Sonnets to the Humans. These are amatory sonnets, but with love and rhyme tortured into broken and boneset textures. Supplice herself, the dark lady of these poems, is difficult to pin down with an epithet. Is she the angel of reality, banality, popular culture, pornog