Verge

Morgan Lucas Schuldt Free Verse Editions Edited by Jon Thompson Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-035-9 (paperback; $12.00); 978-1-60235-036-6 (PDF, $9.99) 68 pages, © 2007 by Parlor Press Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. Interviews Read an interview with Morgan Lucas Schuldt at "First Book Interviews." (Nov. 2008) About This Book The poems in Morgan Lucas Schuldt’s debut collection, Verge, speak at once both brokenly and reparably of the body, of its lusts and devotions, its violences and “satisflictions.” Schuldt’s lyrics exploit the phonetic suppleness of the English language in a way that teases out (mischievously so, earnestly so) an ecstatic, carnal, tender kind of poetics that pays homage–in both name and spirit–to poets like Hopkins, Celan, Crane and Berryman, as well as ekphrastically to painters Francis Bacon, Joan Miro, and Hironymous Bosch. What others are saying about Verge With Verge, Morgan Lucas Schuldt voic