The Book of Fists
Katie Manning was tired of the Bible being used as a weapon against other people, so she started taking language from the Bible and using it to make poems.
Katie Manning was tired of the Bible being used as a weapon against other people, so she started taking language from the Bible and using it to make poems.
In “William Banks’s Wager,” Brett Foster reconstructs a letter from William Banks, a British clerk who venerated the famous Mount Grace Priory, in which Banks beseeches the monks’ prayers and confesses, with slight pleasure, a certain theft.
In “Trees,” Jesus’ condemnation reenacts itself under a cherry tree, the red fruit hanging in “fistfuls” on a monastery hill.