No Other Gods

By Todd Hearon

No Other Gods, draws richly on Hearon's gifts as poet and dramatist. From the sonnets and nonce-forms interspersed throughout, to its central thousand-line verse monologue, No Other Gods strikes the full octave with a jazzed, symphonic roots-music. In its play of masks and voices, one meets a pantheon both sacred and profane-Mnemosyne, Priapus; memory and desire-from Pasiphae, "that daughter of the sun," to a junked-out "toothless whore named Cookie" of our own century. With mythopoetic propulsion and expanse, No Other Gods is, ultimately, a paean to the human imagination, the force that in the face of negation and nothingness, "sings well into the night."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910669164
• ISBN13: 9781910669167
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Salmon Poetry
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 8.3"