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Aunt Carmen's Book of Practical Saints, the newest work from Chicana poet Pat Mora, is an attempt to create a literature to accompany the particular religious traditions of New Mexico. Overflowing with luscious color photographs of religious folk art (everything from pine wood statuettes of Jesus to napkins embroidered with the images of saints), Mora's book consciously tries to capture the combination of humility and religious pride that makes folk art so captivating. She attempts to give a voice to the shaky hands that manifested their faith through carving and sewing and painting...
TRANQUILITY: I abso-fucking-lutely am standing on the surface of the fucking moon. I am talking to you from the goddamned fucking moon. Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket...
...them carries a rich linear ornamentation that never gets congested. The silver-gilt cup, borne up on the stem, is quite plain: it shifts visual gear from the "worldly" solidity of the base to an abstract purity that seems transcendent. If you wanted a container for the blood of Jesus, it would be impossible to imagine a more fitting one than this...
...Dead? April 8, 1966 3,430 2. Who Was Jesus? Aug. 15, 1988 2,121 3. Is Feminism Dead? June 29, 1998 2,004 4. Whose America? July 8, 1991 787 5. Is Freud Dead...
...Cash recorded more than 400 scripture passages for a handheld electronic Bible. Makers of the Good Book have discovered niche marketing and it is good. There are Bibles for women, recovering addicts, children and Promise Keepers. There are Bibles with such names as The Rock and WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?). There are even Bibles for the hip: slim volumes of individual books with introductions by nonreligious figures like singer Nick Cave, writer Will Self and biologist Steven Rose, who explains helpfully in his introduction to Genesis that it pretty much sounds like hooey to him. Seek and ye shall...