The Devotional Poems

by Joe Hall

Joe Hall is a devout poet. He is devoted to trailer parks, the drafty inner spaces of domesticity where we cry out for our lady help. He finds god, saints, saviors, in spiders in a woodpile. For Hall, poetry cannot hold anything if it doesn't break. Here, god is amputated from the ground, and the ground is opening its devouring mouth. The Devotional Poems is a prayer--a prayer by evangelical AM radio, oxycodone addiction, white pines, and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939568013
• ISBN13: 9781939568014
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Black Ocean
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 7.4"