Casting out / Rocco de Giacomo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Giacomo, Rocco, author.

Series:

Essential poets ; 300.

Essential poets series ; 300

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spirituality--Poetry.

Spirituality.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

110 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Chicago ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (U.K.) : Guernica Editions, 2023.

Summary:

"Casting Out chronicles the author's entry as boy, progression through and eventual exit, as an adult, from the Pentecostal world. It's an attempt to reconcile the evidence-based reasoning of the speaker's present with the angels and demons of his past. This collection confronts what it means to be loved in a system that the speaker now finds not only irrational but hateful. The poems address the struggle to raise children in the absence of spiritual beliefs and contemplate the questions of whether imparting secular values is enough of a foundation, and how much should a child -- even if it is back towards the religious tradition the speaker has left behind -- be permitted to find her/his own path."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: For Then Shall Be Great Tribulation

Pat Robertson Tells Us

Origin

Satanic Panic

Be It as It May

Blessed Defeat

No Easy Way

Supply Teacher's Lament

People Change but Only If You Give Them Room to Do It

Touched

Windstorm

For NM

Covenant

Weekend Warrior

Huddle Up

For CB

Jesus Loves Me

The Seventh Sign

I'm Right Here

The Temple

Google

"What Balls

So It Goes Further Into The Deepest Darkness

They Will Know Us

Please Don't

Losing Yahweh in Gananoque

Move On

Death by Prayer Wheel

Billions and Billions

This Is What Life Looks Like Some 200 Miles Above the Earth

New World Order

Relativity

From Penuel to Jabbok (Wrestling The Angel)

1. Hulk Hogan

2. Terry Bollea

I Had No Need of That Hypothesis

A Sharp Stick

Nothing Means Nothing, Yeah

Inconsolable

Batman V Superman

A Father's Lament

The Great and Little Speck

We Come And Go All the Time

I'll Tell You All the News

Let the Little Children Come to Me

A Million Dead End Streets

Why Now

Noam Chomsky Whispers in Your Ear

Beautiful Scoundrel

Come And See

O My People! Their Oppressors Are Children and Women Rule Over Them

Things Are Not So Good Right Now

Lisa, We Cling to Them, Don't We

Tammy Faye Bakker Sings to Me

We Are This Now

Any Wickedness, but the Wickedness of a Woman

A Silent And Loving Woman Is a Gift Of The Lord

Forbidden

Our Time

Mon-Fri

Lyric for the Dead

We Know This Much

On Your Third Straight Visit to the Walk-In Clinic

An Atheist's Lament.

ISBN:

9781771837699

1771837691

OCLC:

1346154705