Skandalon: Poems

by T.R. Hummer

In Christian theology, a skandalon is a distraction from grace, a maze of error where we wander pointlessly, wasting our lives. To the ancient Greeks, a skandalon was the trigger of a trap. T. R. Hummer's labyrinthine new collection encompasses these meanings and more, as its poems take various paths-some beguiling, some grotesque, some instructive, some opaque-to unexpected destinations. Undergirding the collection is a series of progressive vignettes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807157414
• ISBN13: 9780807157411
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.7"