Piety and Other Afflictions In Piety and Other Afflictions, a collection of poetry, the poet examines the persistence of religious devotion despite changes in lifestyle, environment, and circumstance. Dealing primarily with the author’s family experience, particularly the cultural influences of New Orleans and Catholicism, this collection explores the various and sometimes unlikely ways people do and conversely do not express religious conviction. Various topics are examined through this filter, including illness and recovery, death and mourning, and the cultures of the Deep South and contemporary America in contrast with the predominantly Catholic New Orleans culture. English
Piety and Other Afflictions
In Piety and Other Afflictions, a collection of poetry, the poet examines the persistence of religious devotion despite changes in lifestyle, environment, and circumstance. Dealing primarily with the author’s family experience, particularly the cultural influences of New Orleans and Catholicism, this collection explores the various and sometimes unlikely ways people do and conversely do not express religious conviction. Various topics are examined through this filter, including illness and recovery, death and mourning, and the cultures of the Deep South and contemporary America in contrast with the predominantly Catholic New Orleans culture.
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