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And finally, into two of the book’s knockouts: a beautiful remembrance of the poet and writer, Donald Hall, and a probing look at what it’s like to teach a creative writing workshop inside the walls of a federal prison. “Christopher Locke’s WITHOUT SAINTS is an intimate and lyrical book of essays that begins with vivid and wondrous memories of childhood, into early adulthood’s ambivalence around a worrying drug use, into the intimacies of being a husband and a father.
Marcus, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of What it Takes to Pull Me Through “Haunting and understated, Christopher Locke chronicles the secrets that bedevil every extended family.” -David L. Locke knows how to make the ordinary feel fantastical and the fantastical ordinary.” -Jen Michalski, author of The Tide King and The Summer She Was Under Water Every scene is taut, like a highwire, the only steady presence Locke's lyrical, quiet prose.
“This slim volume of essays packs a dense punch, propelled, like a carnival ride, through Locke's Pentecostal upbringing to his years as a drug-experimenting teen punk, to his teaching career, family, and intermittent struggles with substance abuse.
Like Denis Johnson’s propulsive Jesus’ Son, Without Saints is a brief, muscular ride into the heart of American desolation, and the love one finds waiting for them instead. WITHOUT SAINTS is a breathtaking journey to rediscover hope between the ruins: Poet Christopher Locke was baptized by Pentecostals, absolved by punk rock, and nearly consumed by narcotics.
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