The Devil's Workshop: Poems

by Demetria Martínez

Book Overview

"I can no more describe love," writes Demetria Mart nez, "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 Tongue explores the themes that have long characterized her writing: the creative and destructive powers of romantic love, the failure of political systems, the spiritual life, and the need to forgive oneself in order to move on with the work of transformation,...

• 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.