{"product_id":"city-of-god-paperback-6","title":"city of god - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBill Lavender\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBill Lavender's \u003cem\u003ecity of god\u003c\/em\u003e is a poetic reading-through of St. Augustine's magnum opus with comparisons to contemporary American life and politics. This book-length, 300+ page poem, described as a \"monumental epic\" by Adeena Karasick and \"a masterpiece\" by Cynthia Hogue, uses Augustine's reflections on the sacking of Rome by Alaric in 410 to reflect on the attempted insurrection in Washington in 2021 and other aspects, both personal and political, of the modern world, including the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the history of slavery in the U.S., and the daily struggle of homeless people in the poet's city of New Orleans. Other poets have compared the work to models as diverse as Dante and Dave Chappelle, Pound's \u003cem\u003eCantos\u003c\/em\u003e and the great Roman satires of Juvenal and Martial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...a stunning poetic record-of our times, and for the ages. This is a masterpiece!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Cynthia Hogue, author of \u003cem\u003einstead, it is dark \u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere's 326 pages of poems that virtuosically track the seismic political changes roiling below our feet. Here's Lavender straight up calling it: Christian Nationalism, and its downriver cultural debris. city of god stands as one of the richest, most experimental and authentic chronicles of our time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Rodrigo Toscano, author of \u003cem\u003eWHITMAN.CANNONBALL.PUEBLA\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wonderful antidote to the delirium of our epoch, Lavender's book offers a model of how to stay alive, present, and creative under pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Laura Mullen, author of \u003cem\u003eEtC\u003c\/em\u003e, translator of Stéphanie Chaillou's \u003cem\u003esomething happens\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLavender writes with rage and empathy into his own, and his nation's, last days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Susan M. Schultz, author of \u003cem\u003eI and Eucalyptus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is serious political poetry, not slogan-ridden protest... and it wields both scorn and deep insight, thus reviving the spirit of the great satirists-Juvenal, Martial \u0026amp; Co.-from the decadent period of the Roman Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-John Taylor, author of \u003cem\u003eWhat Comes from the Night\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ecity of god\u003c\/em\u003e plays against Augustine's text... but in place of a pontificating saint we have a plain-speaking New Orleans poet reflecting, soberly and gorgeously, in his latter years, on a world again at the brink. ....a truly astonishing work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Norman Fischer, author of \u003cem\u003eThere was a clattering as...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...Lavender's stunningly prescient august[inian] translation underscores how history, \"slurred through centuries,\" is cyclic... A dexterously textural, poignantly pivotal, \"hurricane of passions.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Adeena Karasick, author of \u003cem\u003e rotomania: The Book of Lumenations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErudite, jazzy, perhaps sinful, this is the modern polis's earnest riposte to the creator of \"original sin.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Peter Thompson, translator of Fernando Arrabal's \u003cem\u003eLetter to General Franco\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one has ever blended rage and empathy more eloquently.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Rodney Jones, author of \u003cem\u003eSalvation Blues\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAlabama\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 354\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 02, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52960239911219,"sku":"9781968422028","price":33.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/8jt2w7xNLy9781968422028.webp?v=1768481689","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/city-of-god-paperback-6","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}