The Lives of the Saints Suzanne Paola.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paola, Suzanne.

Series:

Pacific Northwest poetry series.

The Pacific Northwest poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women.

Christian saints.

Women--Poetry.

Christian saints--Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (76 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The image of the rose winds through the book, symbol of eternity and transience, gravity and folly. We find it in the ghastly bloom of the atomic bomb, in the relic of St. Therese of Lisieux, in the wool of a cloned sheep. Its image glows silently under the Waste Isolation Projects of Yucca Mountain and New Mexico, in the U.S. Human Radiation Experiments, in the altars constructed at the schoolyard gate of the Columbine massacre. The poems -- witty, sly, sensitive, and immensely informed -- trace the spiritual inquiries of a series of linked personae adrift in bodies and a world made toxic by the residues of scientific experimentation. Paola's dramatic monologues begin and end with the same fictional narrator, a wry, cynical, cake-baking woman who, on learning of the atomic structure of all matter, begins a lifetime of questioning. At times blasphemous, at times poignant and humorous, these voices are never less than heartbreakingly human, and the words they utter chill with their honesty. The Lives of the Saints is a stark, wise, meticulously researched book by a writer whose reputation leaps forward with each publication.

Contents:

Lives of the Saints

First Letter of St. Paul to the Clones

Blessed Ludovica Albertoni

Second Letter of St. Paul on the Human Genome Project

Patient 6

First Letter of St. Paul to the Columbines

Caterinati

Third Letter of St. Paul at the Playground

Lives of the Saints II: Rosette

First Letter of St. Paul in the Homogocene.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295806952

0295806958

OCLC:

949884924