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A profound encounter with the hyperreality of our time of global upheaval, violence, and pandemic. Tom Sleighs poems are skeptical of the inevitability of our fate, but in this brilliant new collection, they are charged with a powerful sense of premonition, as if the future is unfolding before us, demanding something greater than the self. Justice is a prevailing force, even while the poems are fully cognizant of the refugee crisis, war, famine, and the brutal reality of a crowded hospital morgue. The Kings Touch collides the world of fact and the world of mystery with a resolutely secular register. The title poem refers to the once-held belief that the king, as a divine representative, is imbued with the power of healing touch. Sleigh turns this encounter between illness and human contact toward his own chronic blood disease and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its mounting death tolls. One poem asks, isnt it true that no matter how long you / wear them, masks dont grieve, only faces do? In this essential new work, Sleigh shows how the language of poetry itself can revive and recuperate a sense of a future under the conditions of violence, social unrest, and global anxiety about

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Author

Sleigh, Tom, author

Publisher

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781644450772

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.2 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14