Desire Poems, 1986-1996

"Tom Carey's poetry is one that moves by contradictions. For this poet, the religious is erotic, religious art....It's oddly exalted work, world weary yet attractive -- shiny and deep". -- Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls Continuing a tradition that extends from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Thomas Merton, Franciscan brother Tom Carey writes luminous poems of erotic spirituality that locate the sacred in the things of the world and in the mysterious relationships between them. From a romantic desire for God and a spiritual desire for sex, Carey writes about the ineffable concretely, directly and with wit.