This collection leaps into the dangerous currents where poetry and reli-gion meet, and enlivens the lexicon of traditional American Christian belief by testing its doctrines and language against conte
“To read this book is to be reminded of how many major poems have their root in prayer.”—Grace Schulman“The thirty prose poems that make up Epistles are as compellingly modern in their form as they ar
Poetry and religion meet in this collection of poetry that tests the doctrines and language of American Christianity against contemporary experience. Simultaneous.
“To read this book is to be reminded of how many major poems have their root in prayer.”—Grace Schulman“The thirty prose poems that make up Epistles are as compellingly modern in their form as they ar
A pantoum about a child touching the smallpox-scarred face of an aunt; a dialogue between Jesus and Pilate in the form of a nursery rhyme; Joseph and Mary sleeping on the Sphinx's stone paw: these are
Best Books of 2011, Kansas City Star"[Jarman's] poems explore faith in its many manifestations, but there is something here transcendent that speaks to everyone. Highly recommended."?Library JournalBo
Mark Jarman, author of the narrative poem Iris and the lyric sequence Unholy Sonnets, is a poet associated with the revival of narrative and traditional form in contemporary American poetry. In Body
With characters ranging from desperate to wildly comic, Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives employs virtuosic wordplay and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence. But Jarman doesn't just write abo
Hudson Review has been a remarkable publication from the onset, featuring translations from no less than Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore and Robert Fitzgerald. Over the years they have fostered the concept
