| Saint X Contributor(s): Nesset, Kirk (Author) |
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ISBN: 1936205769 ISBN-13: 9781936205769 Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2021351744 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.9" W x 7.6" (0.45 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Kirk Nesset's Saint X chronicles the muted joy and despair of a millennial age, charting love's ills and the grind of mortality. His figures are bizarre but familiar: people born under punches, shaken awake by rattles and flares, latter-day pilgrims who stare at the statue that stares at America; people for whom disobedience is still a first duty, and death but a question of style. Wearing bandages rather than smiles, they're misshapen champions downed by self-bludgeons, perversely on foot while the saddled horse follows--and yet in each case, in each poem, they are honored if not saved by nuanced reflection, measured perception, and the pleasures of song. |
