=================================DAVID BRAZIL - PRAXIS, APOSTLES!Published August 2015=================================
David Brazil is the author of The Ordinary and Holy Ghost (both published by Compline), among others. Most recently, Antisocial Patience came out from Roof Books in 2015. Praxis, Apostles! continues his engagement with theology and revolutionary politics; one might view it as a sequel to his metrical translation of St Paul’s letter to the Romans, the final section of The Ordinary. Sections in rhyming couplets sit alongside lines that spread across the page, almost to its edge, the seemingly archaic and the contemporary not separated but crowding in together, “from out the wreck / the wreck of my / particulars, my / placenames.” Far from being an arcane exercise, this is a poetry that is fully and fundamentally concerned with issues of common justice and social transformation. “and common things of commons we require / each one apportioned regions of the fire.”
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