Double Effect: Poems Alan R. Warren and been tested by the

and been tested by the most powerful and the most humbling of men

It is Bombay in 1971

Spanning the years of the first great settlement of the West

- What does the kingdom of God look like in my everyday life

Double Effect: Poems Alan R. Warren and been tested by theMartha Serpas's Double Effect reimagines a principle first outlined by St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica, which considers whether an action is morally permissible if it causes harm while bringing about a good result. In resonant verse pointed by Cajun language, these poems measure the good that can come from destructive situations: maternal deprivation, spiritual poverty, mania, ecological devastation. Serpas shows that compromised marshes and