The Devil's Workshop: Poems

by Demetria Martínez

Book Overview

"I can no more describe love," writes Demetria Martinez, "than mystics can light." Don't believe it for a minute. In this collection of fifty-three poems, the author of the award-winning novel Mother... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816521972
• ISBN13: 9780816521975
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Brief yet emotionally memorable free-verse poems

The Devil's Workshop is a collection of brief yet emotionally memorable free-verse poems by novelist and poet Demetria Martinez. Poignant and memorable, reaching out to people, The Devil's Workshop is a compendium of verse which embraces both the light and the dark of humanity. Today I was told that the words/'War is bad'/Make for/Bad poetry./ OK./Then consider/This poem/Dispensable,/Depleted/As uranium,/A poor poem,/A colored poem.