The King Is Dead

The King Is Dead

by Reuben Woolley

80 pages· 2014· ISBN 9781312342675
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""the king is dead is a Promethean gamble that pays off for Reuben Woolley, a book that seems to be absurdly minimalist in its expression manages to body-cage and reduce universal themes to striking symbols that set into balance the agonies of existence along with a patient longing for death... ...The eponymously titled series at the heart of the book explores the rage of human wastage and the necessity of physical and psychical transformation. There is a psychic economy to how mythos and ceremony are presented by Woolley."" from the introduction by Christine Murray

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    How does Reuben Woolley’s use of minimalism and sparse language amplify the emotional weight of the universal themes explored in the collection?

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    In what ways does the book interrogate the concepts of mythos, ritual, and ceremony within modern human experience?

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    Considering the themes of "human wastage" and transformation, how do the poems portray the tension between bodily decay and psychic endurance?

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