“Giving Godhead”: A Bloody Vision of Religion’s Deepest Influence
…homas Simmons of the University of Iowa, it declared that Dylan Krieger’s Giving Godhead “will be the best collection of poetry to appear in English in 2017.” Simmons then went on to describe Krieger’s blend of “the religious with the obscene” as “a new form of the grotesque that marries autobiography to personal and national trauma,” calling the book “easily among the most inventive and successfully performative works to appear in living memory.”…
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