Holy Land: Poems

“Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." —Exodus 3:5

“The Holy Land is everywhere.” —Black Elk

The two epigraphs that preface Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s Holy Land introduce the reader to the central theme that permeates her poems: that holy places deserve to be regarded with reverence and that all places are holy places. In her afterward, the poet traces these foundational concepts to her Catholic childhood wherein religious instruction cons...