A Curse on the Fairest Joys
Grant, Martha K.
A Curse on the Fairest Joys contains the gripping portrayal of two young girls, one molested by her priest, and one shot to death by her father. Martha K. Grant is versatile, her forms and styles various, her difficult subject matter interspersed with more lyrical, spiritual and philosophical poems which allow the traumatic to develop breadth and depth. These poems have heat and heart, and remind us that poetry, even in the face of the unspeak...