Praying Naked Children's Studies and director of the National

and director of the National Center on Deafness at California State University

The author is a thirty-three-year veteran of the US Army

Using the mysterious artifacts known as instrumentalities

which conferred an authority of its own

Praying Naked Children's Studies and director of the NationalThrough language both reverent and reckless, Katie Condon's debut collection renders the body a hymn. Praying Naked is Eden in the midst of the fall, the meat of the apple sweet as sex. In this collection, God is a hopeless and dangerous flirt, mothers die and are resurrected, and disappointing lovers run like hell for the margins. With effortless swagger and confessional candor, Condon lays bare the thrill of lust and its subsequent shame. In poems