Lamp of the Body AUTH-9536702 Taubes's reading has been crucial

Taubes's reading has been crucial for a number of interpretations of political theology and of Paul--including those of Jan Assmann and Giorgio Agamben--and it belongs to a wave of fresh considerations of Paul's legacy (Boyarin

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takes special note of Lux's bitter wit

Tony Award nominee)

Sarah Shaw

Lamp of the Body AUTH-9536702 Taubes's reading has been crucialHere in Maggie Smith's first book we encounter a voice that is spare, confident, and precise. Her images click into place, and the movement of each poem is deft, muscular, taut. These are poems we trust, poems that ask hard questions while at the same time convincing us of the magic in the world. Smith's voice is reserved, yet she carries her world forward in her teeth, so to speak. There's wisdom and acceptance in many of the poems, coupled with a