Three, Breathing

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Selected by Mary Ruefle for the National Poetry Series, this singular book transcends time and convention. S.A. Stepanek resurrects Whitman and Blake to weave a mantra of biblical, domestic, and political themes unified by repetition and manic religious energy.

I worship the Great Credulity laughing.
Golden leaves as lips, butterhands, dainty
veins in wings, liquid architectures,
rain.

Author Bio

S.A. Stepanek earned an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writer's Workshop and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston and is currently teaching creative writing and literature at Wheaton College in Illinois.