Track Conditions by Michael Klein6/11/2023 ![]() Jen Michalski, author of The Tide King and The Summer She Was Under Water Haunting and understated, Christopher Locke chronicles the secrets that bedevil every extended family. Locke knows how to make the ordinary feel fantastical and the fantastical ordinary. Every scene is taut, like a highwire, the only steady presence Lockes lyrical, quiet prose. This slim volume of essays packs a dense punch, propelled, like a carnival ride, through Lockes Pentecostal upbringing to his years as a drug-experimenting teen punk, to his teaching career, family, and intermittent struggles with substance abuse. Like Denis Johnsons 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. Book Synopsis 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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