Michael Waters' Sinnerman charts the fluid boundaries between transgression and transcendence in narrative poems containing Waters' signature lyrical gestures. "Blessed be sin if it teaches men shame," wrote Georges Benanos. Sinnerman continues the poet's exploration of trespass as a mode of worship in poems that "delight in wit and wordplay" (The Gettysburg Review) and display "raucous devotion" while assuming "a divine erotic presence even in his...
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