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nataly_thevelveteenpage's review
dark
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Cradleland of Parasites is an exceptionally strong body of art. Tantlinger has an overtly natural hand for poetry and intricately weaves her research with history, horror, the macabre and the morose.
Each piece pertains to some parasitic entity, beginning foremostly with an entire section devoted to the bubonic plague/black death. The latter half evolving symbiotically with the timeline from thence to hither. Through Yersinia pestis' triad of a repertoire, to the modern day ponderings of whether we have, as a people, evolved extensively enough to successfully manage the reemergences of such -demics (spoiler alert, I don't think we have).
Tantlinger is ever the story teller, regardless of the quantity of flesh per piece. I very much enjoy a repetitive phrase or a cyclical idea that hooks its spores into the reader, drawing them back around to the intention, and therefore summation of the individual works. Singularly and collectively, this is highly impactive poetry with the bonus of an educative element. I recommend it if you enjoy a dark and bleak reality.
Each piece pertains to some parasitic entity, beginning foremostly with an entire section devoted to the bubonic plague/black death. The latter half evolving symbiotically with the timeline from thence to hither. Through Yersinia pestis' triad of a repertoire, to the modern day ponderings of whether we have, as a people, evolved extensively enough to successfully manage the reemergences of such -demics (spoiler alert, I don't think we have).
Tantlinger is ever the story teller, regardless of the quantity of flesh per piece. I very much enjoy a repetitive phrase or a cyclical idea that hooks its spores into the reader, drawing them back around to the intention, and therefore summation of the individual works. Singularly and collectively, this is highly impactive poetry with the bonus of an educative element. I recommend it if you enjoy a dark and bleak reality.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness
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