Book record
The Drunkenness of God
Luis Armenta Malpica
Translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel
Luis Armenta Malpica’s The Drunkenness of God, translated by Lawrence Schimel, has a title that makes theology stagger. God here is not distant, clean, or abstract. The title suggests ecstasy, excess, intoxication, and perhaps the collapse of solemn authority into lyric experience. As a Mexican poetry entry from Libros Medio Siglo, the book likely moves through spiritual and sensual registers at once. I would introduce it as a work of divine disorientation. The reader does not need to settle whether the drunkenness is sacred, comic, erotic, or terrifying. The point is that the poem lets those modes touch. It belongs on the shelf as a work of spiritual appetite and charged imagination.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Libros Medio Siglo
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- ISBN
- 9780986449734