Cuarentena
A Collection of Forty Poems
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2021
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Publisher's Description
The forty poems in Cuarentena explore orchids and archangels, saints and serpents, walruses and watchmen; they are uncompromisingly honest yet carefully crafted. Throughout the series, a clear, resonant voice accompanies us on a journey from biblical Babylon to the bowels of an overrun COVID hospital in El Salvador. This is ambitious poetry--challenging, lyrical, and poignant--that lays bare our human frailty but ultimately celebrates our resilience.
Endorsements (2)
“. . . an intensity of imagery which, although often dark, is beautiful in how wrought it is.”
“Reading Stephen Lang's Cuarentena is like walking beside a well-traveled plowman. With language that is sharp and sculpted, he tills the soil of the human story with an eye to reckoning and redemption. When he pokes the fires of myth and mortality, his posture is wise and questioning. Cuarentena is a salient and enjoyable collection of both earth and soul, an apt reflection of the pandemic season in which it is written.”
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