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Book

Headless John the Baptist hitchhiking : poems

Call Number

  • 811 S1616 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Cincinnati : Acre Books, 2022.

Physical Description

70 pages ; 23 cm

Summary

In C. T. Salazar's striking debut poetry collection, the speaker is situated in the tradition of Southern literature but reimagines its terrain with an eye on the South's historic and ongoing violence. His restless relationship with religion ("a child told me there was a god / and because he was smiling, I believed him") eventually includes a reclamation of the language of belief in the name of desire.

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.