Satan repentant / Michael Aiken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aiken, Michael, author.

Series:

UWAP poetry series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Devil--Poetry.

Devil.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

140 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

This long narrative poem, accessing the possibilities of a lyric essay, revisits the wasted potential of Lucifer's character and redirects his fate.

Contents:

Book I Satan Repentant p. 13

Satan knows self-regret p. 15

The Enemy approaches Peter p. 16

Beelzebub reissues his spy p. 18

The Enemy re approaches Peter p. 19

Satan is allowed an audience with God's chamberlain p. 19

Satan's audience with God p. 20

Satan makes his apology p. 21

God responds p. 23

Beelzebub indignant p. 24

Satan takes a beating p. 28

Satan answers God p. 30

Book II Lucifer reborn p. 33

Lucifer reborn p. 35

Beelzebub speaks with God p. 36

The secret council of Raphael and Michael p. 38

Raphael orders the corruption of Lucifer p. 43

Meanwhile in Hell they plot the same p. 44

Armaros the monster emerges from the sea p. 45

Angels sent by Raphael seek to sound Satan p. 51

A friendship for Lucifer p. 54

Satan is confronted by a possession p. 55

Furcifer reports to Beelzebub p. 57

Beelzebub asks the virtuoso of sadism for advice p. 58

Satan's childhood comes to an end p. 62

Satan becomes an artist p. 63

Book III Satan's adulthood p. 65

Satan tries to escape the visions p. 67

A group of three demons undertakes to find and punish Satan p. 67

Beelzebub unleashes the hounds of Hell p. 68

Lucifer contemplating artistry p. 69

Three demons go to kill Lucifer, encounter three angels bent on the same p. 70

Beelzebub casts out three demons p. 75

Many angels and demons lose their place or way p. 78

Satan investigates demonology, Catholicism, to rid himself of hauntings p. 79

Satan-poet ignores God p. 80

Three angels induce Lucifer to destructive behaviour p. 82

Lucifer creates false-visionary art while in a state of altered perception p. 84

Beelzebub pleased Lucifer has become a hedonist p. 84

Furcifer reports Satan was induced to abusiveness p. 85

Raphael casts out three angels p. 86

Growing casts of angels and demons roam Earth p. 87

Wandering-lost angels massacre a pair of inebriates p. 89

Beelzebub's weaponsmith creates a blade to amplify Satan's weaknesses p. 90

Beelzebub courts God; exploits human Lucifer's pride and rage, causes him to murder p. 91

The grief of Satan; momentary insight to the ethereal p. 97

Book IV Recovering from his crime p. 101

Satan despairs for his crime; rejects poesis as artifice, imitation p. 102

The angels warn God, Satan is regressing p. 103

Lucifer homeless on the streets, too distracted by guilt and a growing desire to transcend p. 104

Jesus and Raphael review the troops p. 105

God visits human Satan as a vision; Lucifer reinterprets that manifestation as expression of his own eternal guilt p. 106

Lucifer gives up on life p. 110

Jesus moves to incite Satan to war p. 110

On his deathbed Satan remembers he sought forgiveness p. 113

Jesus tells God to give up on reclaiming Satan, or lose the support of Heaven. God returns, having failed to persuade Satan, no longer in command p. 115

The hosts of heaven decamp to kill Satan p. 116

A conversation between Jesus & Raphael reviewing the field p. 117

God offers again to let Lucifer re-enter Heaven p. 118

Satan expires p. 122

Book V The final battle p. 123

A squad of derelict, renegade angels, over-vigilantes, attacks a demonic outpost p. 124

Lucifer re-emerges in the world, an empyrean in Purgatory; meets a forlost angel-storyteller p. 125

That same angel goes on to tell that God has purged the Earth p. 127

An army approaches Satan p. 128

He meets God but sees the disguise immediately p. 129

Lucifer defies Jesus p. 132

Jesus and Lucifer confront one another p. 133

Jesus strikes Satan again; mocks poesis p. 134

As the angels question their allegiance, Beelzebub reappears, poor inflated bag p. 136

Many angels resolve to serve with Hell, prevent Armageddon p. 137

The last fall on Lucifer and each other, stabbing and beating p. 138

The end. Jesus unsays the world p. 139.

ISBN:

1742589774

9781742589770

OCLC:

1023525370