Splash Like Jesus brings together three contrasting but complementary
though you've been smuggled from polite conversation
giving them an international gathering of poems of great personal force
and includes Goliath and David
Published by Carcanet in June 2017
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar by Helen Vendler membership Splash Like Jesus brings togetherOne of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth and twentieth century English, Irish, and American poets. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades worth of Helen Vendlers essays, book reviews, and occasional proseincluding the 2004 Jefferson Lecturein a single volume. Taken together, they serve as a reminder that if the arts and the patina of culture they cast over the world were deleted, we