{"product_id":"gospel-drunk-9781772125467","title":"Gospel Drunk","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGospel Drunk follows a speaker’s journey to find clarity and identity as he contemplates his Catholic upbringing and struggles with loneliness and alcohol addiction. Sharp, intoxicating imagery and a minimalist aesthetic combine in these poems to explore some of our darkest and strongest belief systems, dismantling them with wit and wisdom. Poignant boyhood memories of hockey coaches as “dragons in suits” collide with critiques of “the broken bicycle of recovery.” A child’s fingers interlace to form a gun during mass and Hulk attends an AA meeting. Boldly honest, Gospel Drunk is for all who seek humanity in a world where the personal and the political are equally complicated.  He drops a match on his wound to set fire to his blood. At a certain temperature even the Devil cools.    -from “Drowning Man Sonnets”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e# 10 on Edmonton Poetry Bestsellers list, October 10, 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI 2   Disciple  3   Galileo 4   Trust 5   Helmets and Gloves 6   Social Development  7   Ode to the Hockey Bro 8   Churches, Trucks and Shallow Pools 10  Driving Through Kitsilano 11  Suburban Lament 12  Two Lips 13  Fall of the Empire 14  Meditation on Enclosed Space 16  This Might Be the Warmest Parking Lot in Canada   17  Another Seasonal Poem 19  We Are Bioluminescent 20  Passage II 22  Struggling Protagonist 23  Indelible 24  Sizing Up 25  The Light Salesmen 26  Prayer in the Age of Unreason 27  Mary Too 29  Sacrificial Sons 31  Eternal Optimist 33  Land in the Name of Taking 34  Suffering as Spectacle   35  Holes 36  Hard Rain 37  Sonnet in Defence of Lust   38  Nothing Written Is Sacred III 40  Gun Journal 47  Safety Rules 48  The Strongman 49  The Activist 50  Eyes of the Assailant 51  Good Men 52  Colonial Chokehold 53  Fallen 54  Superhero AA 55  Epistle of the Inebriate   56  Empty 57  Ode to Ruin 58  Drowning Man Sonnets 73  Notes 75  Acknowledgements","brand":"University of Alberta Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887605166423,"sku":"9781772125467","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781772125467.jpg?v=1722545357","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gospel-drunk-9781772125467","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}