Praying Naked Children's Studies and the mortuary literature that

and the mortuary literature that focuses on life after death

ISBN13: 9780060843830

Using the mysterious artifacts known as instrumentalities

When psychologist

Summer Rain

Praying Naked Children's Studies and the mortuary literature thatThrough 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