Sacrament: Poems on Desire and the Sacred

Sacrament is a debut chapbook that moves through desire like a liturgy: erotic, grieving, devotional, and uncontained. Canadian poet Ruth Massey writes about obsessive hunger and surrender, treating the body as holy ground: the lover, the lost child, the mother, the divine, the self. At times spare and confessional, at times ecclesiastical and baroque, these are poems of mystical and contemplative longing.