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Vox Angelica

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

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 72
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780914086970
  • Genres
  • poetry, lgbt, gay
  • Release date
  • 1992