Thick and Dazzling Darkness Students & student organisations biographer

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'Choke is Fight Club for sex addicts' Independent on Sunday

Inspired by the penguins and fuelled by Darjeeling tea and finger sandwiches

wide-eyed libertarians and right-wing economic radicals were waiting

and inspiration for living intentionally

Thick and Dazzling Darkness Students & student organisations biographerHow do poets use language to render the transcendent, often dizzyingly inexpressible nature of the divine? In an age of secularism, does spirituality have a place in modern American poetry? In Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter O'Leary reads a diverse set of writers to argue for the existence and importance of religious poetry in twentieth and twenty first century American literature. He traces a poetic genealogy that begins with Whitman and Dickinson