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Praying Naked

Praying Naked

Condon, Katie

Paperback

Series: Osu Journal Award Poetry

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0814255736
ISBN13: 9780814255735
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Published: Mar 19 2020
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Through language both reverent and reckless, Katie Condon's debut collection renders the body a hymn. Praying Naked is Eden in the midst of the fall, the meat of the apple sweet as sex. In this collection, God is a hopeless and dangerous flirt, mothers die and are resurrected, and disappointing lovers run like hell for the margins. With effortless swagger and confessional candor, Condon lays bare the thrill of lust and its subsequent shame. In poems brimming with the desire / to be desired by men, by God, by lovers' other women, by oneself, she renders a world in which wildflowers are coated in ash and dark bedrooms flicker with the blue light of longing. The speaker implores like an undressed wound: is it wrong to feel a hurt kind of beautiful? Ecstatic and incisive, Praying Naked is a daring sexual and spiritual reckoning by a breathtaking new poet.

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