Praying Naked by Katie Condon
Through language both reverent and reckless, Katie Condon's debut collection renders the body a hymn. Praying Naked is Eden in the midst of the fall, the meat of the apple sweet as sex. In this collection, God is a hopeless and dangerous flirt, mothers die and are resurrected, and disappointing lovers run like hell for the margins. With effortless swagger and confessional candor, Condon lays bare the thrill of lust and its subsequent shame. In poems brimming with the desire / to be desired by men, by God, by lovers' other women, by oneself, she renders a world in which wildflowers are coated in ash and dark bedrooms flicker with the blue light of longing. The speaker implores like an undressed wound: is it wrong to feel a hurt kind of beautiful? Ecstatic and incisive, Praying Naked is a daring sexual and spiritual reckoning by a breathtaking new poet.
Katie Condon's poems have appeared in The New Yorker and Prairie Schooner, and her work has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Tin House.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780814255735 |
| ISBN 10 | 0814255736 |
| Title | Praying Naked |
| Author | Katie Condon |
| Series | Osu Journal Award Poetry |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Ohio State University Press |
| Year published | 2020-03-19 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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