Placeholder text

Go to cart

Saints of Little Faith

By Megan Pinto

Saints of Little Faith Poetry

Saints of Little Faith

0 - Default Title
Description
The energies animating Saints of Little Faith, Megan Pinto's electrifying debut in poetry, are a forceful quiet, a loud stillness, the caesura between a lightning strike and the sound of thunder. Everywhere, the speaker sees the numinous power of language, the incipience of things to come, even a kind of catastrophic grace in desolation and destruction -- as if within the terrain of her own obsession, she recognizes the familiar, ever-changing seasons. Fierce and intimate, this poet's meditative transformations engage with South Asian experiences of addiction, domestic violence, and mental illness, refusing to ignore narratives treated as unspeakable and overlooked by the English canon. Mapping the collision of abuse, psychosis, and rage, Pinto sees beyond them, buoyed by an inscrutable but abiding faith in the holiness of life itself, in a cold God nevertheless capable of gentleness. Once, "desire was an arrow, but now desire / is the field." Pinto presides over this expanse, deciding, "I have three choices: to drift through life / anesthetized, to soften. . ." In that unspoken "or," the merciful lacuna of that ellipsis, reside the lyrical mystery and medicine that feed this astonishing collection and strengthen resolve, both ours and the speaker's: "The lake looks frozen, but it is not."
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
112
Release Date:
2024-09-15
Publication Date:
2024-09-15
Publisher:
Four Way Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1961897148
ISBN13:
9781961897144
Weight:
159 g
Height:
147 cm
Width:
221 cm
Thickness:
10 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out