Gospel Drunk
Paperback 88 pages English March 08, 2021
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Gospel Drunk follows a speaker's journey to find clarity and identity as he contemplates his Catholic upbringing and struggles with loneliness and alcohol addiction. Sharp, intoxicating imagery and a minimalist aesthetic combine in these poems to explore some of our darkest and strongest belief systems, dismantling them with wit and wisdom. Poignant boyhood memories of hockey coaches as "dragons in suits" collide with critiques of "the broken bicycle of recovery." A child's fingers interlace to form a gun during mass and Hulk attends an AA meeting. Boldly honest, Gospel Drunk is for all who seek humanity in a world where the personal and the political are equally complicated. He drops a match on his wound to set fireto his blood. At a certain temperature eventhe Devil cools. -from "Drowning Man Sonnets"
- Author:
- Aidan Chafe
- Publisher:
- University of Alberta Press
- Publication Date:
- March 08, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 88 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1772125466
- ISBN-13:
- 9781772125467