Vox Angelica
Author | : Timothy Liu |
Publisher | : Alice James Books |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781948579940 |
ISBN-13 | : 1948579944 |
Rating | : 4/5 (944 Downloads) |
Download or read book Vox Angelica written by Timothy Liu and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Liu's text the ascent, the ecstatic apprehension of the divine (he is a religious poet, there are no two ways about it, though perhaps there are twenty) can be effected only by a demonic insistence upon abjection, upon the descent. He shrives himself, and his poems show the marks of the lash--they are the lash--and his vision is naturalized to a degree that would astonish his predecessors, that astonishes us. This is a shocking poetry, and the shock is not of recognition, but of estrangement. It makes an unfamiliar claim upon us, the claim of apostasy. --Richard Howard, from the forward