The Drunkenness of God by Luis Armenta Malpica and translated by Lawrence Schimel

This is poetry from Mexico.

The Drunkenness of God by Luis Armenta Malpica translated by Lawrence Schimel is published by Libros Medio Siglo. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780986449734E12.

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.

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