The Book of Hulga

The Book of Hulga speculateswith humor, tenderness, and a brutal precisionon a character that Flannery OConnor envisioned but did not live long enough to write: an angular intellectual proud woman approaching God inch by inch grinding her teeth. These striking poems look to the same sources that OConnor sought out, from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Edgar Allan Poe to Simone Weil. Original illustrations by Julie Franki further illuminate Reeses imaginative verse biography of a modern-day hillbilly saint.