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Castle Tzingal: A Poem,Used
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With this poem, Fred Chappell takes his readers far from the southern landscape and familiar passions of his acclaimed Midquest tetralogy. He tells instead of a forbidding medieval castle ruled by a mad king and peopled by bitter, scheming grotesques and melancholy weaklings who cower at the sound of the sweet, sad voice of truth that haunts their nights.Castle Tzingal is a fairy tale without moral or happy ending, a tale in which lies and selfdeceptions take the place of ogres and in which moral corruption is the dragon to be slain. In a series of highly formal dramatic monologues, Chappell presents the corrupt longings and fears of the courts manipulative astrologer, its forlorn queen, a pensioned admiral, a seductive page, and the homunculusborn of chemicals and firewho spies on them all:What things I might say if I so inclined!The astrologers passion for a comely pageIs news; Queen Frynna has no peace of mindSince a nimble harpist sojourned hereLast twelvemonth; theres a wealthy vein of silverRuns beneath our Castle Tzingal; the magpieSinging in the courtyard wicker cageIs a transformed enemy sorcerer.This kind if information finds its floweringIn time; all knowledge becomes of use,And when it does I bear it to the King.Ruling over this monstrous court is King Tzingal himselfselfproclaimed great lord of toadswhose only power is hatred and whose reign can only be ended when his dismal kingdom is finally overrun by truth, by poetry.Set in a mythical kingdom in a mythical age, Castle Tzingal is a political fairy tale that speaks with the vivid, sometimes harsh truth and knowledge of our most fevered nightmares.
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