I Will Destroy You
But first the maker of art must claim responsibility for his past, his actions, his propensity to destroy others and himself. “Begin by descending, ” Augustine says, and the poems delve into the deepest, most defeating parts of the self: addiction, temptation, infidelity, and repressed memory. These are poems of profound self-scrutiny and lyric intensity, jagged and probing. I Will Destroy You is an honest accounting of all that love must transcend and what we must risk for its truth.