Double Effect: Poems

by Martha Serpas

Martha Serpas's Double Effect reimagines a principle first outlined by St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica, which considers whether an action is morally permissible if it causes harm while bringing about a good result. In resonant verse pointed by Cajun language, these poems measure the good that can come from destructive situations: maternal deprivation, spiritual poverty, mania, ecological devastation. Serpas shows that compromised...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807172758
• ISBN13: 9780807172759
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"