To Collect the Flesh

By Greg Hewett

Hewett's poetry combines humor and tragedy--the sublime and the mundane. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898231671
• ISBN13: 9780898231670
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: New Rivers Press
• Length: 85 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

To Collect the Flesh

Hewett's powerful command of image and tone leave the reader thirsting for more from this amazing poet. These poems are wonderfully honest, traversing love and complex familial bonds, somewhere between ecstasy and abjection...hot.

Broad vision, deep heart

If you like your poems lusty and intellectual, with an all-encompassing sense of history, sexuality, and musicality, then buy To Collect the Flesh. A brainy, funny, sexy book.

Hewett juxtaposes emotional intimacy and sensuous language.

Greg Hewett's collection is something of an anomaly among contemporary lesbian/gay/bisexual writers. Hewett manages to invite the reader into a very close proximity with the speaker of his poems. But, at the same time, his precision of language maintains the reader's relative closeness to the poems without enmeshing reader and speaker. The reading of Hewett's poems has a way of grounding the reader in the commonness of the experiences described, but manages to avoid the typical Victorian emotional gush in poetry of an autobiographical nature. Because of the accessibility of the poetry and its unique presentation of subject and style, I recommend "To Collect the Flesh" without hesitation.