Saint with a Peacock Voice

L. S. Klatt Free Verse Editions Edited by Jon Thompson Information and Pricing978-1-64317-501-0 (paperback, $14.95); 978-1-64317-502-7 (PDF, $9.95); 978-1-64317-503-4 (EPUB, $9.95). © 2025 by Parlor Press, 86 pages. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. What People Are Saying L. S. Klatt’s Saint with a Peacock Voice is such a fascinating and rewarding experiment! Part cento, part erasure, part collaboration, part puppet show (though is Klatt puppeteering O’Connor, or is O’Connor puppeteering Klatt?), these poems cohere into a pure, mysterious lyric mindscape, an exploration of how language is always fundamentally both interior and shared. The O’Connor we find in these poems can be our contemporary, addressing such things as 9/11 and global warming, and the Klatt we encounter can’t help but return obsessively to O’Connor’s complex and stark views on God. I’ve never read a book quite like this before, in which two minds wear each other