A Communion of Saints, Poems by Terence Culleton
Summary
But although the poems are often wildly funny, they usually serve to elucidate some nugget of philosophy or spiritual angst, and many resonate with an almost unearthly beauty...”— Editor Anna Evans (Barefoot Muse and the Rainbow Reviw), review in The Schuylkill Valley Journal.Terence Culleton’s debut collection of original poetry has assembled a conclave of fictional saints whose legends, lives, libidinous sin quests, sonnets, and songs reverberate with the heroic loneliness of the human condition.These men and women starve, flagellate, isolate, and emasculate themselves in order to transcend the fleshly condition.Some achieve transcendence, others fail, but their efforts are recounted in impeccably crafted verse, metered and rhymed, ironic and raucous, invested with a spectral and irreducible sense of mystery.But although the poems are often wildly funny, they usually serve to elucidate some nugget of philosophy or spiritual angst, and many resonate with an almost unearthly beauty...”— Editor Anna Evans (Barefoot Muse and the Rainbow Reviw), review in The Schuylkill Valley Journal.Terence Culleton lives and teaches in Newtown, PA. A former Bucks County Poet Laureate and a semifinalist in The Nation/Poetry contest, Mr. Culleton reads widely throughout the Philadelphia area, as well as in northeastern Pennsylvania and New York City.