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Confident in his use of Christian icons, nothing is 'sacred' to Paul Stubbs who is as prepared to write as God and Pope as he is Adam (and Eve). Using paintings by Francis Bacon as their starting points, these poems delve into baroque realms of psychological and philosophical thought, filling the unknown with urgent possibility. To each neo-operatic poem he brings wit and classical knowledge to build a singular and aesthetic passion. Yet throughout the landscape of these poems, there are reminders of the business of living with pain, desire and faith. This is not a book for the faint-hearted, but those who enter will be well rewarded, emerging with a renewed conviction of their own choices in viewing the world and our construction of it.
Contents
The Paralytic Child; The Ascetic attempts to speak; God-Body problem (resolved?); Afterworldsmen; The Birth of the Third Reich; The priest kept alive in public; On Route to Bethlehem; Since the Death of Yeats; The Birth of God; Two Figures; Three; An Adam (and an Eve); The Awakening (evolution of the pious); Pope II; The Pope departs his heaven; Evolution; The New Birth of Man; Bandaged Figure at the Base of a Crucifixion; Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh V; Figure in Movement, 1976; Monkey and the Atheist; Lying Figure, 1969; The Unsaved; Lost Tale from the Apocrypha; Religious man prepares for paradise; The Apostate; The Abstract Crucifixion; Paralytic Child and the Flood; The Three Final Phases of Perdition; Head I, 1948; Death of Utopia; The Scream; Men on high-pulley contraptions in mid-air; The Adam Resurrection; Elysium; The Last Days; The End of the Trial of Man; Parousia; Biographical Note
