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In Liu's text the ascent, the ecstatic apprehension of the divine (he is a religious poet, there are no two ways about it, though perhaps there are twenty) can be effected only by a demonic insistence upon abjection, upon the descent. He shrives himself, and his poems show the marks of the lash--they are the lash--and his vision is naturalized to a degree that would astonish his predecessors, that astonishes us. This is a shocking poetry, and the shock is not of recognition, but of estrangement. It makes an unfamiliar claim upon us, the claim of apostasy. --Richard Howard, from the forward
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Liu, Timothy
- ISBN: 9780914086970
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.62 x 0.23
- Number Of Pages: 72
- Publication Year: 1992