Strap: Poems

Pleasure and divine worship comingle within Strap. Delusional, hungry, and obsessed, this is a poetics of pain that proposes joy — an ecstasy that begs for release. Strap asks: Must the abused become the abusers? How does one know if love is genuine? These poems tie knots that are deeply erotic, with lyrical ropes of ancestral wounding and mysticism. The book explores the false binaries of suffering and prayer, trauma and kink, in a quixotic perversity that smacks of survival by the revelation of secrets. Strap's engine thrusts the reader from one page to the next by fueling a grief that feels almost beguiling to consume, or perhaps a collision of the senses so seductive as to become utterly consumed by the poems themselves.