Skandalon: Poems

In Christian theology, a skandalon is a distraction from grace, a maze of error where we wander pointlessly, wasting our lives. To the ancient Greeks, a skandalon was the trigger of a trap. T. R. Hummer's labyrinthine new collection encompasses these meanings and more, as its poems take various paths — some beguiling, some grotesque, some instructive, some opaque — to unexpected destinations. Undergirding the collection is a series of progressive vignettes entitled "Victims of the Wedding,"...