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Recital of the Dark Verses
by Luis Felipe Fabre
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- ISBN 13
- 9781646052790
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Paperback / softback. New. <b><i>Recital of the Dark Verses</i> is a road novel, a coming-of-age tale, and a raunchy slapstick comedy that tellsâin careening, charismatic proseâthe (true) story of the theft of the body of Saint John of the Cross.</b><p>In August 1592, a bailiff and his two assistants arrive at the monastery of Ãbeda, with the secret task of transferring the body of Saint John of the Cross, the great Carmelite poet and mystic who had died the previous year, to his final abode. When they exhume him, they find a body uncorrupted and as fresh as when he died.<i>Â </i></p><p><i>Â Recital of the Dark Verses</i> follows the three hapless thieves as they sneak the corpse of Saint John of the Cross from Ãbeda to Segovia, trying not to lose too many pieces of the body to his frenzied disciples along the way. It is the (true) story of a heist, a road novel, a coming-of-age tale, and a raunchy slapstick comedy told in careening, charismatic prose. It is also a witty and wise commentary on the verse of one of Spain's most important poets woven from the lines for which he is best knownââa revival of words written more than four centuries ago, and a centering and celebration of their intrinsic queerness.</p>
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- Luis Felipe Fabre
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- Paperback
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- 9781646052790
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