Praise for Holy the Body:

[E]xquisitely funny and magically solemn . . . —MAJOR JACKSON, author of Razzle Dazzle

[S]pirited and tender . . . poems of deep humor and pathos. —PHILIP METRES, author of Fugitive/Refuge

[P]ortrays innocence alongside violence before a return to innocence through clear-sighted recollections. —PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA, author of Kitchen Hymns

McAbee’s portrait of an open-handed, non-judgmental, big tent Christianity will appeal to all who seek connection . . . —KATE DANIELS, author of In the Months of My Son’s Recovery

[G]ems of faith, emotion, and longing . . . an apophatic theology that speaks to the holes in our hearts . . . —ERIKA MEITNER, author of Useless Junk

Holy the Body wrestles with ghosts and shadows, discovers Mother Teresa in a cinnamon bun in Nashville, Tennessee, and Jesus’s tears in a trick of light. At once dark and humorous, these poems explore the dynamics of loss, grief, and doubt, while chiseling out a hard- earned language for the sacred.