Vox Angelica

By Timothy Liu

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
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914086979
• ISBN13: 9780914086970
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Alice James Books
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.6"