Praying Naked

Through language both reverent and reckless, Katie Condon's debut collection renders the body a hymn. Praying Naked is Eden in the midst of the fall, the meat of the apple sweet as sex. In this collection, God is a hopeless and dangerous flirt, mothers die and are resurrected, and disappointing lovers run like hell for the margins. With effortless swagger and confessional candor, Condon lays bare the thrill of lust and its subsequent shame. In poems brimming with "the desire / to be desired" by men, by God, by lovers' other women, by oneself, she renders a world in which wildflowers are coated in ash and dark bedrooms flicker with the blue light of longing. The speaker implores like an undressed wound: "is it wrong to feel a hurt kind of beautiful?" Ecstatic and incisive, Praying Naked is a daring sexual and spiritual reckoning by a breathtaking new poet.

Author: Katie Condon
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Published: 03/19/2020
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d
ISBN13: 9780814255735
ISBN10: 0814255736
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Women Authors
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Love & Erotica
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Inspirational & Religious

About the Author
Katie Condon's poems have appeared in The New Yorker and Prairie Schooner, and her work has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Tin House.

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