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ISBN13: 9798985882445
Publisher: Etruscan Press
Published: Nov 7 2023
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Publisher: Etruscan Press
Published: Nov 7 2023
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Michael Waters' Sinnerman charts the fluid boundaries between transgression and transcendence in narrative poems containing Waters' signature lyrical gestures. Blessed be sin if it teaches men shame, wrote Georges Benanos. Sinnerman continues the poet's exploration of trespass as a mode of worship in poems that delight in wit and wordplay (The Gettysburg Review) and display raucous devotion while assuming a divine erotic presence even in his more harrowing poems (The Georgia Review).
A fire escape, a fire hydrant, a father's comb, the mosaic of a bull in an Italian shopping mall, a soul in flight--all assume resonance that they may shine more darkly in the light of Waters' words. If sin is seen as good once gone, these poems weigh our attraction to transgression against our desire for forgiveness. Novelistic in depth and reach, elegiac in its embrace of the living and the dead, raw in its fraught vulnerability, and cunning in its explosive and tongue-delighting sound play, Sinnerman seems poised between the here-and-now and the invisible it invites and confronts.
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