Corpses of Angels: Poems

By Henry W. Morrow and Henry J. Morro

Henry J. Morro's CORPSES OF ANGELS is a stunning debut of powerful and tender poems about identity, the gender wars and survival. These poems reveal the beauty and terror of awakening in a new country, searching for the touchstones of memory, reaching back and finding the language of peasants and machetes, of machine guns and priests, of gods and flesh. Henry Morro's poems exude a gross beauty which explodes the heart, cause a delicious pain, leaves the victim yearning--Wanda Coleman.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941017613
• ISBN13: 9780941017619
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Bombshelter Press
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"

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Corpses of Angels

Henry J. Morro's Corpses of Angels is a stunning debut of powerful and tender poems about identity, the gender wars and survival. These poems reveal the beauty and terror of awakening in a new country, searching for the touchstones to memory, reaching back and finding " the language of peasants and machetes, of machine guns and priests, of gods and flesh." Here is a record of the pain and scars of the gender wars, the wild sexuality at the core of this country's values, the sexual icons that distort love, physical beauty, and the human touch. At the center of this collection is the brutal spirituality of the survivor - the guerillas in a dictatorship, the molested children, the runaways, the suicides - all grappling for a better life or moving on to the next life. --- from book's back cover