What We Do With God : Poems, Hardcover by Toosie-watson, Daniella, Brand New,...

What We Do With God : Poems, Hardcover by Toosie-watson, Daniella, ISBN 9798888904299, ISBN-13 9798888904299, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK\n\nIn What We Do with God, Daniella Toosie-Watson collapses the division among humans, the natural world, and the divine.\n\nToosie-Watson\u2019s debut poetry collection meditates on the politics of mental health, pleasure, and the natural world. In this book, the everyday miracles of insects are studied, celebrated, and made sacrosanct. Prayer and pleasure are two sides of the same coin. Propriety has no bearing on sensual connection and exploration. The poet calls upon Puerto Rican, Iranian, and Russian inheritance to explore where, why, and how ancestral mysticism and Western pathology intersect and/or diverge. The speaker finds those questions mirrored back as they maneuver through the stark realities of the US mental health care system.\n\nWhat We Do with God dives into the grotesque, the bestial, the surreal, as a means to defamiliarize.