Download or read book Sonnets about Serial Killers written by S. P. Somtow and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE POETRY YOUR TEACHER WOULDN'T LET YOU READ Somtow flogs a dead horse to life in this astonishing collection of sonnets. Horror and humor, pathos and putridity, the sublime, the subliminal, and the sublimated all blend together in this tour-de-force of madcap invention. Exposing the human condition in all its grittiness and unwitting comedy, this book is the first collection of S.P. Somtow's poetry since the pretentious outpourings of his adolescent years. "There's life in this art form," he says, "plenty of life, as long as you're willing to dive headlong into the maelstorm of our insane twenty-first century existence." His subject matter comes from the tabloids: serial killers, sex scandals, mass murderers, and hate crimes. Distilled into the severe discipline of the sonnet form, these tawdry subjects find a new resonance, and new relevance, and we recognize in ourselves a continuity with our own past.... "Be scared, my friends. Be very, very scared. This book will take you from the paths you've known, To sights unseen, dark corners never bared, To deeds undared, halls never braved alone. Forget the world of Spenser's airy Faerie Shakespeare's bisexual angst, or Petrarch's passion; This poet's cream's decidedly non-dairy, His skewed perspective somewhat not the fashion. To this poetic banquet do I bring Inquiring minds that have inquired too much: Of Court TV and Tabloids do I sing, Of killers, perverts, hypocrites, and such, For in life's drama, they too play their part. Inhuman horror hides a human heart."
Download or read book Sonnets about Serial Killers written by S P Somtow and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S.P. Somtow flogs a dead horse to life in this astonishing collection of sonnets. Horror and humor, pathos and putridity, the sublime, the subliminal, and the sublimated all blend together in this tour-de-force of madcap invention. Exposing the human condition in all its gritty nastiness and unwitting comedy, this book is the first collection of S.P. Somtow's poetry since the pretentious outpourings of his adolescent years. "There's life in this art form," he says, "plenty of life. as long as you're willing to dive headlong into the maelstrom of our insane twenty-first century existence." His subject matter comes from the tabloids: serial killers, sex scandals, mass murderers, and hate crimes. Distilled into the severe discipline of the sonnet form, these tawdry subjects find a new resonance, and new relevance, and we recognize in ourselves a continuity with our own past.
Download or read book Killer Verse written by Harold Schechter and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem is a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder. The villains and victims who populate these pages range from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard and his wives to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men. The literary forms they inhabit are just as varied, from the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads to the hard-boiled poetry of twentieth-century noir, from lighthearted comic riffs to profound poetic musings on murder. Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Mark Doty, Frank Bidart, Toi Derricotte, Lynn Emanuel, and Cornelius Eady are only a few of the many poets, old and new, whose work is captured in this heart-stopping—and criminally entertaining—collection.
Download or read book Serial Killers An American Focus written by Stephen Cender and published by . This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetry Killer written by Rusty Marshall and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always leaving behind a near-perfect crime scene, a ruthless killer taunts Fairfax County, Virginia, police homicide detectives by leaving a brief, nonsensical poem with each victim explaining why they were chosen. Enjoy an inside glimpse of the personal and professional lives of Lieutenant Nancy Gremillion and her inept, grumbling partner, Detective Bill Lyntrotski, as they endeavor to rid the quiet suburban streets of northern Virginia of a sadistic killer. With the aid of handsome Native American FBI agent Paul Proudwolf and obnoxious ace newspaper reporter Leo Clancy, they follow numerous twisting trails in their attempt to stop a well-trained killing machine on the rampage.
Download or read book Taking Time Out written by Thomas Krampf and published by Salmon Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a comfortable book; there are poems in it such as "Brain Disease," which take the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer as subject matter. And yet in other poems madness is not without its own point of view, and its own touch of humor. Other poems attempt to resolve any tendencies toward violence and self-destruction that the author himself might have experienced. And in so doing, to help explain some of the personal, political, and spiritual aberrations of the psyche, that might be so prevalent in our society today.
Download or read book Broken written by Natasha Dennerstein and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natasha Dennerstein's gestures in this collection are stripped so far back they are practically bleached. The subject is difficult, forget square pegs and round holes, the geometry of Aileen Wuornos was n-dimentional. We hear that female serial killers are a rare thing. I frequently wonder if that might not be too short a sentence, if they might not mean it's rare for female serial killers to be caught. Take this book, this story, in your hands. Take in the bleak snapshots in words. Take Dennerstein's songs of pain and repeated impact: bullet, flesh, insult, sex. See if you can also take some comfort in this being the poet's version, "white female aged 34 at the end of her tether." How are your revenge fantasies? Dennerstein is a poetic master, this collection is a masterwork. K Shuck 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco Natasha is an amazing author, and a fearless advocate for pushing boundaries of politeness, stereotype, static thinking. She comes to us in her new collection, always provoking new and imaginative ways of being, and perceiving. This book is years in the making, and so worth picking up. Linda Ravenswood BFA, MA, PhD Poet and Performance Artist Founder and EIC, The Los Angeles Press Through diverse poetic structures and enlisting her lyrical strengths alongside diction that's realistic for a woman branded a "monster," Natasha Dennerstein humanizes Aileen Wuornos, a man-hating killer that America failed to truly see. Through poems mostly in the voice of Wuornos, readers submerge within a woman that we otherwise write off as criminal. Angry. Crazy. Broken is a courageous yet sound emotional and psychological autopsy of abuse's consequences, as we wander Wuornos' life from birth until the ashes of assault's girlchild who "hitchhiked her life away," transforming wounds into survival, into murder. Almost immediately in this collection, readers find themselves facing a whole other murderer in this killer's story, a sadistic sequence of atrocious men as the true perpetrator. This collection is a bravely uncomfortable but necessary excursion into the soul of the suffering, when sexual assault enlists women to embody the patriarchy's dirty work. K.R. Morrison Poet and educator, author of Cauldrons
Download or read book Serial Killers the Stars and the Malevolent Sun written by Michael Farrell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What scares you the most? Is it murderers, zombies, or even the inevitable march of time that slowly consumes every single person and living being? Prepare to find out in this collection of poems by new poet Michael Farrell. In his first published book Farrell looks to explore some of his (and maybe your) greatest fears, while also providing a new outlook on the beauty of nature, life and even ourselves
Download or read book Robert B Parker s The Hangman s Sonnet written by Reed Farrel Coleman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stellar new novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times bestselling series featuring Paradise police chief Jesse Stone. Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiancée by crazed assassin Mr. Peepers, must keep his emotions in check long enough to get through the wedding day of his loyal protégé, Suitcase Simpson. The morning of the wedding, Jesse learns that a gala 75th birthday party is to be held for folk singer Terry Jester. Jester, once the equal of Bob Dylan, has spent the last forty years in seclusion after the mysterious disappearance of the master recording tape of his magnum opus, The Hangman's Sonnet. That same morning, an elderly Paradise woman dies while her house is being ransacked. What are the thieves looking for? And what's the connection to Terry Jester and the mysterious missing tape? Jesse's investigation is hampered by hostile politicians and a growing trail of blood and bodies, forcing him to solicit the help of mobster Vinnie Morris and a certain Boston area PI named Spenser. While the town fathers pressure him to avoid a PR nightmare, Jesse must connect the cases before the bodies pile up further.
Download or read book Something with Blood in the Title written by Khurt Khave and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror Stories - Murder Poems - Creepypasta Featuring "My Friend the Serial Killer" a 25 page expose' on real life murderer Bryan Patrick Miller, including info the cops don't know and never before seen pictures. Also featuring "In Defense of Horror Films" a lost article by horror legend VINCENT PRICE.
Download or read book Sonnet to a Dead Contessa written by Gilbert Morris and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Trent must rely on her newfound faith to solve the mystery . . . and save herself. In London, 1858, women of British nobility are being murdered with alarming frequency, so Scotland Yard calls on Lady Serafina Trent and her crime-solving partner, Dylan Tremayne, to help piece together the perplexing clues. With Dylan's help, Serafina has garnered acclaim as a brilliant detective—solving mysteries by relying on her astute observation and scientific reasoning. But in the midst of solving these crimes, Serafina's relationship with Dylan meets unexpected stress when his childhood sweetheart returns. Torn between desire and decorum, Serafina desperately wants Dylan to be happy—but in the arms of another woman? After a lifetime of viewing the world through a practical lens, Serafina begins to examine her own soul--and realizes her need for Jesus. Yet will her faith save her life when all clues point to Serafina as the murderer's next victim? Enjoy Victorian England through the eyes of Christian Fiction's most beloved author.
Download or read book The Serial Killer s Daughter written by Pat Riviere-Seel and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dark Sonnet written by Tom McCarthy and Bill Dohar and published by De Profundis Books. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myles Donne is certain of nothing except that he can never return to Oxford. Two years ago, as a much-admired Jesuit at the threshold of prestige and possibility, he made two irredeemable mistakes: he fell in love with the perfect woman and then killed her in a motorcycle accident. Shattered, he lost his faith, left the priesthood, abandoned his career and decamped to his birthplace in Colorado, where he’s been working in a hardware store, languishing in ignominious limbo. When he receives a dire and dubious plea from his late beloved’s brother Jeremy—a Jesuit and Myles’ estranged friend—against nearly every impulse within him he reluctantly agrees to return to the place of his greatest joy and hardest fall. Jeremy, a genial but lackluster Oxford don, has stumbled upon a tattered and unpublished manuscript by Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Though the unfinished poem has been ignored for well over a century, Jeremy believes it contains a series of word puzzles indicating the location of the Cuxham Chalice, a legendary treasure dating to England’s medieval past. Jeremy wants Myles’ help to decode the enigmatic sonnet, locate the chalice and, above all, to keep Jeremy safe from an unknown and dangerous adversary. Upon Myles’ arrival, Oxford is convulsing from the beheading of an innocent boy in an apparent act of Islamist terror and besieged by riots and violent reprisals. Two days into his visit, as Myles faces the discomfiting realization that his friend has exaggerated the sonnet's importance and his personal peril, Jeremy disappears. Myles soon realizes that persons other than Jeremy and his good friend Eva Bashir, college librarian and a secularized Muslim, are interested in the sonnet and its riddles. Myles and Eva appeal to police investigators who are now consumed with another wave of religious violence after a second beheading and cannot be bothered with a missing Jesuit. Determined that Jeremy’s whereabouts must hinge on something in the vexing manuscript, they strive to decipher its layered and intricate adumbrations. Nimble and unyielding interrogation of the sonnet eventually convinces Myles and Eva that Jeremy has been abducted and will be ritually murdered within a matter of hours. They’re equally stunned to discover a seminal connection between the murderer terrorizing Oxford and the cryptic Hopkins sonnet—why he wrote it on his deathbed and the chilling parallels that it draws to the present-day slayings. Interspersed throughout the twenty-first century narrative, a handful of chapters set in the nineteenth century unfold Hopkins’ story in the present tense. In revealing the origins of the poem, this parallel narrative also unveils the unlikely genesis of the serial murders tormenting Oxford. Myles and Eva decode the poem, and in finding where Hopkins hid the chalice they find Jeremy barely alive in a long-abandoned crypt. The discovery that a factotum from Jeremy’s own college is the villain comes as a shock: no one suspected the bland John Brooke of murder, racism and xenophobia, let alone a monomaniacal plot to scapegoat Muslims. Outwardly a treasure hunt, Dark Sonnet’s underlying trajectory is toward redemption: Hopkins’ painful and long-buried secret is told; Jeremy has revived his career and redeemed himself to all doubters; Eva comes to peace with her Muslim roots and agrees to support her daughter’s exploration of Islam; widespread efforts are under way in Oxford to address systemic prejudice and heal wounds through inter-religious dialogue on a grass-roots level; Myles saves Jeremy and heals the wounds from his sister’s untimely death by invoking the kinship and hope he had forsaken upon leaving Oxford. Before the novel’s end, Myles and Eva develop a gradually deepening connection and intensifying physical frisson. For Myles, their painful parting in the penultimate scene is mitigated by his receiving an astonishing and life-changing job offer, a position that would exploit his unusual skill set to investigate and recover historically significant artifacts around the globe.
Download or read book The Devil s Dreamland written by Sara Tantlinger and published by StrangeHouse Books. This book was released on 2018-11-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H.H. Holmes committed ghastly crimes in the late 19th century. Many of which occurred within his legendary "Murder Castle" in Chicago, Illinois. He is often considered America's first serial killer.In her second book of poetry from Strangehouse Books, Sara Tantlinger (Love For Slaughter) takes inspiration from accounts and tales which spawned from the misdeeds of one Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes. Fact and speculation intertwine herein, just as they did during the man's own lifetime.There's plenty of room in the cellar for everyone in The Devil's Dreamland."¿chilling poetry¿" -Linda D. Addison, award-winning author of "How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend" and HWA Lifetime Achievement Award winner"¿morbidly creative and profound crime documentary¿one of the best works of horror poetry I've read in years." -Michael Arnzen, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Grave Markings and Play Dead"¿fascinating and absolutely riveting¿powerful and vivid prose¿will stay with you long after you've closed the book."-Christina Sng, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Collection of Nightmares
Download or read book East of Eden West of Astor Street written by MR John David Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems inspired by and related to the Andrew Cunanan serial killings in 1997.
Download or read book A Cognitive Approach to John Donne s Songs and Sonnets written by M. Winkleman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigations into how the brain actually works have led to remarkable discoveries and these findings carry profound implications for interpreting literature. This study applies recent breakthroughs from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology in order to deepen our understanding of John Donne's Songs and Sonnets.
Download or read book Love in the Time of Serial Killers written by Alicia Thompson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Cosmopolitan's Best Romance Novels Ever Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn't exactly conducive to modern dating—and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she's used to suspecting the worst. PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She's even analyzing the genre in her dissertation—if she can manage to finish writing it. It's hard to find the time while she spends the summer in Florida, cleaning out her childhood home, dealing with her obnoxiously good-natured younger brother, and grappling with the complicated feelings of mourning a father she hadn't had a relationship with for years. It doesn't help that she's low-key convinced that her new neighbor, Sam Dennings, is a serial killer (he may dress business casual by day, but at night he's clearly up to something). It's not long before Phoebe realizes that Sam might be something much scarier—a genuinely nice guy who can pierce her armor to reach her vulnerable heart.
