Saint X

By Kirk Nesset

Kirk Nesset's Saint X chronicles the muted joy and despair of a millennial age, charting love's ills and the grind of mortality. His figures are bizarre but familiar: people born under punches, shaken awake by rattles and flares, latter-day pilgrims who stare at the statue that stares at America; people for whom disobedience is still a first duty, and death but a question of style. Wearing bandages rather than smiles, they're misshapen champions downed by self-bludgeons, perversely on foot while the saddled horse follows--and yet in each case, in each poem, they are honored if not saved by nuanced reflection, measured perception, and the pleasures of song.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936205769
• ISBN13: 9781936205769
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.9" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10 to Postsecondary