Corruption: Poems

From Caravaggio’s Rome to the tombs of Florence, these vivid poems explore the sensual textures of art, desire, and mortal history.

A rich debut collection from a promising new poet -- selected by Campbell McGrath as a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series Open Competition

The volume gathers an ambitious sequence of poems, tracing how sacred relics, Caravaggio’s canvases, and the Medici tombs register both violence and grace. Florence and Rome frame these historical encounters, from the c...